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neurosciencestuff: Giving White People The Illusion Of Darker...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:31:39 -0400

Giving White People The Illusion Of Darker Skin Makes Them Less Racist

An optical illusion can change the implicit biases of Caucasian people against people with darker skin, according to a study published in the August 2013 edition of Cognition.

The research, a collaboration between Royal Holloway University of London, the Central European University in Budapest and Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, analyzed the implicit racial biases of 34 Caucasian participants, then subjected them to something called the Rubber Hand Illusion, where they watched a rubber hand being touched by a paintbrush as they felt their own hand being stimulated out of sight. The illusion creates the sense that the fake hand is part of the subject’s body, even when it’s of a completely different skin color.

The more the participants felt like the darker skinned fake hand was their own, the less racist they came off in a second implicit bias test.

In another test, participants underwent the same process, but some saw a white hand, while others saw a dark hand. The implicit bias test showed that the opinions of those who saw the white hand didn’t change, while again those who felt ownership of the darker hand felt less racial bias.

“Across two experiments, the more intense the participants’ illusion of ownership over the dark-skinned rubber hand, the more positive their implicit racial attitudes became,” the authors write.

“It comes down to a perceived similarity between white and dark skin,” lead author Lara Maister of Royal Holloway University of London said in a press statement. “The illusion creates an overlap, which in turn helps to reduce negative attitudes because participants see less difference between themselves and those with dark skin.”

The study suggests that racial biases aren’t necessarily cemented by adulthood, but that they can be altered. “Changes in body-representation may therefore constitute a core, previously unexplored, dimension that in turn changes social cognition processes,” the authors write. They suggest that future research into different social groups and stereotypes could expand on their work, since this research only explored the attitudes of white individuals.

iheartmyart: Milimbo Libros

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:58:44 -0400

iheartmyart:

Milimbo Libros

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ashleeadams: We are sold out of Bort key rings in the gift...

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ashleeadams:

We are sold out of Bort key rings in the gift shop, I repeat, we are sold out of Bort key rings (Taken with instagram)

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Buy me this

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horror-o-rama: The Stuff (1985)

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:18:20 -0400

horror-o-rama:

The Stuff (1985)

imremembering: via frickyeah1990s

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:19 -0400

imremembering:

via frickyeah1990s

thedorseyshawexperience: The Cola Road (2013)

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:30:10 -0400

thedorseyshawexperience:

The Cola Road (2013)

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kateoplis: Duane Michals, 1968

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kateoplis:

Duane Michals, 1968

Maxistentialism: The Guardian: One single incident serves as a perfect illustration of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:38 -0400

Maxistentialism: The Guardian: One single incident serves as a perfect illustration of...:

maxistentialist:

The Guardian:

One single incident serves as a perfect illustration of just what an extraordinarily unusual and charismatic person the US musician Frank Zappa, who died in 1993, must have been. In 1968, a year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, a man turned up…

drarna: the reason why people are so hard to read is because they are composed of the letters a, t,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:50:11 -0400

drarna:

the reason why people are so hard to read is because they are composed of the letters a, t, c, and g in random sequences and as im sure you know, that doesn’t spell anything

barbeauxbot: deducecanoe: ruthpower: Bill Nye is my...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:49:00 -0400

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deducecanoe:

ruthpower:

Bill Nye is my favorite

Dawkins needs to get over himself

Bam. Dawkins is a jerk.

How can anybody be that hostile to Bill Nye. Look at him. It’s like Bill Nye’s innate goodness and love for humanity and science is repelling him.