am I late for sumpin'?
Posted on 03/17/2008 4:52:56 PM PDT by forkinsocket
You're in a large group of people when someone makes an edgy remark about African Americans. You glance over at the African-American man sitting across from you to see how he responds. Everyone else does, too. It's natural.
"Think of the Oscar ceremony," says psychologist Benoit Monin. "Someone says something that has to do with race, and you pan to Samuel L. Jackson."
A new report published in the journal Psychological Science finds that when reacting to an ambiguous but potentially racist situation, non-blacks were much more likely to focus on the reaction of an African American than that of whites.
Jennifer Randall Crosby, an assistant professor of psychology at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, used eye-tracking technology to follow the gazes of 25 non-black college students while they watched a video. The film depicted four men, three white and one black, all wearing headphones.
One group of participants was told that all of the men in the video could hear one another, while a second group was told that two of the men — the African American included — could not hear the discussion taking place.
In the video one of the white men makes a statement that could be viewed as raciallly offensive: "I think one problem with admissions is that too many qualified white students are not getting the spots they've earned," he says. "These students work hard all through school and then lose their spots to members of certain groups who have lower test scores, and come from less challenging environments. They get an unfair advantage."
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Shocking! Someone makes anti-black statement and people look at the only black guy in the audio-range. Glad they did the research.
Earth to Researchers - reverse the propotionality of people in the room and direct the inflammatory comment at a White guy, and I would bet people would look at him.
Sometime I wonder whether Captain Obvious is asleep at the job.
How much you want to bet that the 5.73 million dollars for this “study” was stashed by Democrats into one of the bills to fund our troops in Iraq?
(I just made up that 5.73 million number for effect...but who would be surprised?)
non-blacks were much more likely to focus on the reaction of an African American than that of whites.
What the hell does that mean? Is this the next iteration of PC nomenclature?
Don't even think... 
about asking!
More likely because they're afraid that the comment was perceived as 'offensive' by the African American. They should have another study where the proportion of Black/Non-Black is reversed, and the statement changed into one of Wright's "enlightened" sermons.
I’m not sure I’d look at him, though I’d probably sneak a look at his wife if she were good looking.
Or study different minorities in response to each other. Do blacks check a Hispanic’s reaction when Mexican bashing jokes are made? Do Hispanics check an Asian’s reaction?
It works the other way, too!
How many times has this happened to me:
Someone says, “What a beautiful woman.”
Everyone in the room turns to look at me!
LOL, I’m kidding.
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