"Racism" & Group Psychosis

[Igel]

1. I've read some reports on some race/sex-related psych research.

It's sort of not what you'd expect.

If you show subjects footage of sports teams with black and white players and with male and female players you'd think people would notice what's important. It's important that the teams *not* be known to the subjects.

Depending how you ask questions about the events during game play, the subjects' answers indicate with race, sex, or team colors (red/blue, green/yellow).

They default to team colors. In other words they "don't see" race when team membership is important, and that's usually what's important during a game. In fact, if you ask the race of the person who did a specific act they usually don't know or randomly guess unless you set them up to notice. Race is not something that we automatically take note of.

However, subjects typically still notice if it was a man or a woman, even if they're been set up to focus on team colors. Sex is something that we seem to automatically pay attention to.