Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American youth, was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a white volunteer neighborhood watchman, in 2012. His death sparked a heated debate around the country about the effects of racism in the United States. Social psychologists theorize about how different cognitive biases influence different people's perspectives on Martin's death.
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