Yes, you're right, but it depends on the write up of the research piece to know intentions of the research
October 16th, 2013 at 08:47am
- This is true, especially wherre you mention about the bias of words (Self association, it was not mentioned as to whether she listed other colours and gained knowledge of reactions to say 'purple' and 'happy', so self association may have come into it. As far as are we innately racist? Hmmm, I'd say humans are innately discrimitive, not specifically racist but discriminative against all different to ourselves. I think thats fair, what we need to know about embracing cultures is yes we do it more and more, this is amazing and it makes me happy. But it is that there is a trigger and some of us have shall we say parts of our brains which work to stop us acting on our discriminative thoughts? I dont know, I'd just like to know more. i can make nothing scientifically conclusive on this. But yes, a psycho-social study would be amazing to do on this.
- discoveringclouds:
- I've studied sociology and I think there is more behind this than science. Also, since the students were white maybe their brains reacted a similar way because they were reading black. Something that's not them. I feel their is a bias here and that humans are not innately racist. We were made different to get to know each other's nations. We are to embrace this diversity not justify hate.