People are more likely to help a white male with a neotenous face, the opposite is true for black men.

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Why are people unwilling to help a black male with a boyish face, yet the other groups all received more help with more neotenous features.
 
@Nothinginparticular How Do you explain this?
 
My hypothesis is that in the Western world, because black men and boys are associated and stereotyped with criminal behavior, black men with boyish faces are not actually seen as boyish, and are in fact seen as threatening off of their black features. So this is why having a baby face does not make much difference in how they are treated.
The problem with my hypothesis is that the study you cited is cross-cultural, having been done in both the USA and Kenya. The study explains that itself :
The most important qualification to emerge from our findings was that black male faces with neotenous and mature features elicited essentially equal numbers of returns. For these faces, feature manipulations and the impressions they relayed seemed to make no difference. Returns for African-American male faces were not significantly lower or higher than returns for other groups. And because this pattern generalized across countries, it cannot be easily attributed to differences in racial or cultural sensitivities to black faces in Kenya or the US (Anthony, Copper, & Mullen, 1992; Brigham & Malpass, 1985; Shepherd, 1981; Zebrowitz et al., 1993).
Ignoring the face, according to this study American people tend to perceive black men as more physically threatening that they actually are :
 
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