thinkspeakstress: “How widespread are automatic prejudiced reactions to African Americans?...

thinkspeakstress:

“How widespread are automatic prejudiced reactions to African Americans? Experiments have shown such reactions in varied contexts. For example, in clever experiments by Anthony Greenwald and his colleagues (2008, 2009), 9 in 10 white people took longer to identify pleasant words (such as “peace” and “paradise”) as “good” when associated with Black rather than white faces. The participants consciously expressed little or no prejudice; their bias was unconscious and unintended.

Moreover, report Kurt Hugenberg and Galen Bodenhausen (2003), the more strongly people exhibit such implicit prejudice, the readier they are to perceive anger in Black faces.”