#implicit attitudes

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(PDF) Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?

PDF | Four experiments confirmed that women's automatic in-group bias is remarkably stronger than men's and investigated explanations for th

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Four experiments confirmed that women's automatic in-group bias is remarkably stronger than men's and investigated explanations for this sex difference, derived from potential sources of implicit attitudes (L. A. Rudman, 2004). In Experiment 1, only women (not men) showed cognitive balance among in-group bias, identity, and self-esteem (A. G. Greenwald et al., 2002), revealing that men lack a mechanism that bolsters automatic own group preference. Experiments 2 and 3 found pro-female bias to the extent that participants automatically favored their mothers over their fathers or associated male gender with violence, suggesting that maternal bonding and male intimidation influence gender attitudes. Experiment 4 showed that for sexually experienced men, the more positive their attitude was toward sex, the more they implicitly favored women. In concert, the findings help to explain sex differences in automatic in-group bias and underscore the uniqueness of gender for intergroup relations theorists.

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Our Implicit Attitudes: New Research into Human Relationships (w/ Vivian Zayas)

Learn about new research into the implicit attitudes people have in close relationships with others (and more) from Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University.

Resources from Cornell University:

Cornell University’s “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series — https://as.cornell.edu/humanities

Hear Vivian Zayas on the “Love Science” episode of the What Makes Us Human?” podcast — https://as.cornell.edu/news/love-science

Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University — http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~pac_lab/

Vivian Zayas’ Cornell University research bio — https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/vivian-zayas

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small little big confession: i am not going to lie it feels pretty damn great receiving compliments on my physical appearance.

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"I'm not racist!" you exclaim.

You may not consciously discriminate between people of different races. You may not think that you treat them any differently or that you judge people based on their skin colour or ethnicity. However, you may have unconscious attitudes - implicit social attitudes - that influence the way you treat other people, and you may not even know you have these.

Want to take an implicit social attitudes test? Visit https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ and sign up to the study in the top left box.

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Studies on Racism from Your First Year Psychology Class

Chapter 1 of Psychological Science: Second Canadian Edition (2007) starts with the cautionary story of Amadou Diallo. On February 4, 1999, 4 policemen drove around the Bronx in search of a rape suspect. They saw Amadou Diallo, a West African immigrant, standing in the doorway of his apartment building and yelled "freeze". Diallo, who neighbours say, did not understand English very well, reached into his pocket for his wallet to show his id. The policemen, believing Diallo was reaching for a weapon, shot 41 times at the unarmed man, ending his life. The officers were tried for murder, but acquitted. Sound familiar? Amadou Diallo's story is not an anomaly as proven by current events. So why do these tragedies happen?

One possible answer might be implicit social attitudes that influence perception.

Payne (2001) showed pictures of guns or tools to white participants and asked them to classify the objects as fast as they can. Then they were shown a picture of either a black man or a white man immediately afterwards. If a black man was shown, participants were quicker to identify guns and more likely to mistake tools for guns.

Eberhardt, Goff, Purdie, & Davies (2004) found that after showing participants pictures of weapons such as knives and guns, participants paid more attention to black faces than white faces. 

Greenswald, Oakes, and Hoffman (2003) created a virtual reality stimulation where there were 3 characters: a criminal holding a gun, a police officer, and a civilian holding a neutral object. Participants had to either: click their mouse to shoot the criminal, press the space bar to identify police officer or do nothing if they view a civilian. In some trials, white men were criminals and black men were police officers, while in other trials black men were criminals and white men were police officers. The study found that black men civilians were more likely to be wrongly identified as criminals and shot. 

All these studies are evidence of the existing racial bias against black men, who to quote Javon Johnson are "treated as problems well before [they're] treated as people".