ahem...
Posted on 01/30/2006 9:33:42 AM PST by SteveMcKing
Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 30, 2006
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"In my own family, for example, there are stark differences, not just of opinion but very profound differences in how we view the world," said Brenda Major, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, which had a conference last week that showcased several provocative psychological studies about the nature of political belief.
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Emory University psychologist Drew Westen put self-identified Democratic and Republican partisans in brain scanners and asked them to evaluate negative information about various candidates. Both groups were quick to spot inconsistency and hypocrisy -- but only in candidates they opposed.
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The psychologist observed that the way these subjects dealt with unwelcome information had curious parallels with drug addiction as addicts also reward themselves for wrong-headed behavior.
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For their study, Nosek, Banaji and social psychologist Erik Thompson culled self-acknowledged views about blacks from nearly 130,000 whites, who volunteered online to participate in a widely used test of racial bias that measures the speed of people's associations between black or white faces and positive or negative words. The researchers examined correlations between explicit and implicit attitudes and voting behavior in all 435 congressional districts.
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The analysis found that substantial majorities of Americans, liberals and conservatives, found it more difficult to associate black faces with positive concepts than white faces -- evidence of implicit bias. But districts that registered higher levels of bias systematically produced more votes for Bush.
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Thank you, Kanye West!
This fellow nailed it perfectly!
"8. Feminists generally lack the courage to act as individuals.
My first college free speech controversy (way back in 1997) involved a business professor who tried to stop the student newspaper from publishing a column called the “sexual horoscopes.” He claimed that the column was “indecent.” Then he tried to set up a panel to filter “indecent” material before the student paper went to press. I took him on in front of the Faculty Senate and won. In fact, I won big.
But before I won there was a vigorous debate on the Faculty Senate mailing list. It went on for days before someone made the observation that all of the participants in the debate were males. A few days later, a feminist group published a joint response signed by two dozen feminists.
I saw the significance of this pattern immediately. The men all had individual opinions. The feminists all had the same opinion. The men embraced individualism. The feminists embraced collectivism.
In this article:
Femenists, like all cows, have a herd mentality...
I'm screwed because I support President Bush AND I'm black. Who the hell am I s'posed to hate. Any suggestions.... anybody?
I would like to see this study duplicated with a different database. Cause I don't think they can.
I'm calling BS.
ahem...
"I hope Janice Rogers Brown is the next Supreme Court nominee."
I've been hoping JRB would be nominated going back to the previous Supreme Court nomination, and hoped for a JRB nomination for the current one as well.
I want to see the methodology of this "study."
I hope nobody tells my white husband or bi-racial kids (definitely different shades than me) ...or my parents for that matter who are both different shades than me (Mom-lighter, Dad Darker)
"Any suggestions.... anybody?"
Maybe the manipulative would-be overlords who consistently foist divisive, dependency-encouraging statist "law" upon us through judicial fiat?
"I'm screwed because I support President Bush AND I'm black. Who the hell am I s'posed to hate. Any suggestions.... anybody?"
Umm.....no that won't work.
aahhh....no can't do that, too circular...
I guess you're SOL.
Hey! how about left wing garden gnomes? I hate them too!!!!!
I can count on my fingers and toes the number of blacks enmeshed in "black" culture that I respect. Let me tell a related tale...
I am not sure what you mean by being enmeshed in "black" culture. I am proud of my heritage and history, love black music, people, athletes, soul food,black literature and poetry ....I consider myself a lover of black culture. That being said I vote Republican, 2nd ammendment rights, I'm pro-life, against same-sex-marriage. Faithfully married, military wife, teach Sunday school. I'm as conservative as I can be being black. There are probably tons of black folk that you could respect if you got to know them better. We are just like you.
"Hey! how about left wing garden gnomes?"
That only covers Helen Thomas and Madeline Halfbright ... not inclusive enough.
You can hate me, if it makes you feel better. I won't take it personally.
:^)
Nope, already been done.
Good suggestion. Down with L-wing gnomes!
I agree, good people are good people no matter what color they are.
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