Posted on 09/25/2007 6:59:50 PM PDT by blam
Are they talking about car parts or people?
And they knew this to be true by what evidence?
Psychobabble.
“...conducted studies that examined white college students who harbored either some or no racial biases.”
And why not conduct the same study among blacks?
I would like to advance the thesis that, if peoples' "negative associations" are justifiable, that if, in fact, they are based on valid observation and experience, then to NOT be "biased" is pathological. To NOT embrace negative conditioning is to discard one of the psychological mechanisms that has ensured our survival as a species. It is sick to expect people to choose the wrong door in the maze, get shocked, then choose the wrong door again. And again. And again. What this author proposes is that we are somehow wrong in associating being shocked with something negative.
Defining deviance downward.
I hate all paired unfamiliar Chinese characters.
“Psychobabble”
You beat me to the punch!
Love your post.
What is remarkable about the findings is that only seven percent did not show any racial bias (as measured by implicit and explicit psychological tests), and that nonbiased individuals differed from biased individuals in a psychologically fundamental way -- they were less likely to form negative affective associations in general.
Check back when those students get out into the real world and their "diversity is our strength" programing wears off.
I’m not a racist, I hate everybody...
Ah, so there is now “scientific” evidence for original sin?
Right. Lemme tick that one off the list.
I’m really looking forward to the “scientific” free will theorem.
“To NOT embrace negative conditioning is to discard one of the psychological mechanisms that has ensured our survival as a species. It is sick to expect people to choose the wrong door in the maze, get shocked, then choose the wrong door again.”
I agree with your response. It exposes the lie concerning learning prejudice from our parents or friends and not through direct experience. This was a dandy piece of propaganda which once was wide spread by the PC police. Even though it ignored obvious reality, we were to believe it was only our culture’s evil preconceptions and never from experience that anyone became prejudiced.
When I was in college studying behavioral science I did not dare even think about making this point in class. However, we no longer are in school. I’m quite sure you are correct.
Oh for god’s sake DROP IT.
Psychology is the science of creating words for things which don’t exist.
Sounds like an unpronounceable Polack!
Very few people in this country, and I’m serious now, seem devoid of the obsession with race, which obsession is nothing but ignorance, and this applies to these so-called scientists, because it’s not race anymore, it is culture, stupid!
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