This Stanford Psychologist Won A MacArthur Genius Grant For Showing How Unconsciously Racist Everybo

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This Stanford Psychologist Won A MacArthur Genius Grant For Showing How Unconsciously Racist Everybody Is

by Drake Bayer at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-psychologist-macarthur-genius-on-racism-2014-9

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"It's almost as though blackness is so associated with crime that you're ready to pick out these crime objects out of the environment than if you're exposed to a white face," she said.

Her work has carried over to criminal justice. She found that death row defendants were twice as likely to receive a death sentence if they looked "stereotypically black" than if they did not.

In light of her discoveries, Eberhardt is working with police forces "to design interventions to improve policing and to help them build and maintain trust with the communities they serve," the MacArthur Foundation says.

"We want to use the work to help people understand how race can influence us in ways that are beyond our control and beyond our awareness," Eberhardt says.



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1. How can anyone NOT be impacted when living in a racist society?

So many people have made a conscious effort to try to understand this and modify their behaviors and actions ... but we can't deny that our society impacts how all members of the society think and relate to one another

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2. Yes. I did one of those types of tests online. I was on the edge but biased nevertheless.

Nicholas Kristof did a similar test and again was on the edge. Even African Americans often have a bias in similar video tests. I just hope this is the start of a larger discussion. Which will really piss off the GOP because they need racisim alive and, at differenty times for different voters, obvious/undercover to win elections. The last thing they want is everybody on the same page with science.