Wednesday, July 26, 2006
What You Think But Don't Say
The October issue of Psychological Science shows that the stereotyping of groups as being sub-human can happen on an unconscious, neurological level, even when a person is not outwardly repulsed.
Brain imaging presents a new opportunity to study perceptions people may be uncomfortable admitting to researchers.
Neuroimaging research finds that people often consider drug addicts and homeless people to be sub-human.
What seems important here is that an attempts is being made to try to obtain objective estimates of 'something or other'. I am not sure what it is though. The authors claim: "We are interested in trying to get at it in a way that gets around issues of self-report and in ways that even people aren't aware of themselves."
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/what_you_think_but_dont_
say.php?page=all
Earlier similar work: www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/race_fear.pdf
Abu Graib
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/resources_files/Why_Ordinarty_People_Torture_
Enemy_Prisoners_Fiske.pdf
Brain imaging presents a new opportunity to study perceptions people may be uncomfortable admitting to researchers.
Neuroimaging research finds that people often consider drug addicts and homeless people to be sub-human.
What seems important here is that an attempts is being made to try to obtain objective estimates of 'something or other'. I am not sure what it is though. The authors claim: "We are interested in trying to get at it in a way that gets around issues of self-report and in ways that even people aren't aware of themselves."
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/what_you_think_but_dont_
say.php?page=all
Earlier similar work: www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/race_fear.pdf
Abu Graib
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/resources_files/Why_Ordinarty_People_Torture_
Enemy_Prisoners_Fiske.pdf
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