recent study of university students found that blacks experienced greater impairment in cognitive functioning when faced with ambiguous evidence of prejudice than when exposed to blatant prejudice (Salvatore and Shelton 2007). The opposite pattern was evident for whites. It may be that the socialization of blacks may enable them to cope better with blatant than subtle prejudice while the socialization of whites may lead them to fail to perceive subtle prejudice. Routinely assessing the extent to which racial attribution is uncertain appears to be an important priority in the future measurement of discrimination.
