Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets

Bryce J. Dietrich () and Melissa L. Sands ()
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Bryce J. Dietrich: Purdue University
Melissa L. Sands: London School of Economics and Political Science

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 8, 1275-1281

Abstract: Abstract Here, using publicly available traffic camera feeds in combination with a real-world field experiment, we examine how pedestrians of different races behave in the presence of racial out-group members. Across two different New York City neighbourhoods and 3,552 pedestrians, we generate an unobtrusive, large-scale measure of inter-group racial avoidance by measuring the distance individuals maintain between themselves and other racial groups. We find that, on average, pedestrians in our sample (93% of whom were phenotypically non-Black) give a wider berth to Black confederates, as compared with white non-Hispanic confederates.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01589-7

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