Subjects in Study 1 had to estimate how successfully an error in a group label (French, Nigerian, brown, friendly or ‘Wallonian’) was detected. Markedly high estimates were elicited by Nigerian and ‘Wallonian’. Study 2 estimators had to guess what word was successfully detected as erroneous by a specified percentage of subjects. Only one out of 320 guesses was that the word was a racial or national label. Certain group labels were especially noticeable; but group labels did not dominate cognitions.
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