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Implicit Association Test: Are You Secretly Racist? (Hint: You Are)
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Race; Posted on: 2012-08-07 20:13:15 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Translation: Test shows that white Americans notice reality, even if they claim not to.
It's American election season and that means it is time for
psychologists to introduce racism again - not whether you are racist,
but how much.
Well, only white people are, said a talk at the
Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Even if
they do not have any racist thoughts or lock their car door when they
see a young, black man on the sidewalk and voted for Obama in 2008,
white people still are; and their racial attitudes, both conscious and
unconscious, may be a significant factor in this year's U.S.
presidential election. A survey says so.
"People may not even be aware that they have certain racial attitudes
and that could be why, even with an African-American president in the
White House for nearly four years, race continues to play a role in
electoral politics," Anthony G. Greenwald, Ph.D., said in an interview.
Greenwald was lead author on paper about a survey of 15,000 voters.
Surveys and statistics dressed up as science should make more than white
voters nervous.
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News Source: Science20.com
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