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Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2013, 6:17 pm
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Bigots Are Generally Untrustworthy
[font=times new roman]The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of
the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will
contract.[/font]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersona
l Fluency Part 1
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2013, 6:19 pm
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The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias &
Interpersonal Fluency by Alex Madva
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[quote]This dissertation is about prejudice. In particular, it
examines the theoretical and ethical questions raised by
research on implicit social biases. Social biases are termed
“implicit” when they are not reported, though they lie just
beneath the surface of consciousness.
Such biases are easy to adopt but very difficult to introspect
and control.[/I]
Despite this difficulty, I argue that we are personally
responsible for our biases and
obligated
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to overcome them
if they can bring harm to ourselves or to others.
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My dissertation addresses the terms of their removal. It is
grounded in a comprehensive examination of empirical research
and, as such, is a contribution to social psychology. Although
implicit social biases significantly influence our judgment and
action, [i]they are not reducible to beliefs or desires. Rather,
they constitute a class of their own.
Understanding their particular character is vital to determining
how to replace them with more
preferable habits of mind. I argue for a model of interpersonal
fluency, a kind of ethical
expertise that requires transforming our underlying dispositions
of thought, feeling, and action
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[quote]The associations in our heads belong to us… The selves
that we are and the selves we intend tobe are both us, and
sometimes they do not agree. One might say that humans are
large, containing multitudes. Full recognition of this fact
raises serious questions for important issues of responsibility,
culpability, and intentionality.
~ Brian Nosek and Robert Hansen (2008, 553, 591)
A 2004 study found that, after attending an all-women’s college
for one year, female
undergraduates’ implicit attitudes regarding gender and
leadership qualities were completely
overhauled.1
Beforehand, participants were quicker to associate female names
like “Emily” with
attributes stereotypical of female leaders, like “nurturing,”
whereas they were quicker to
associate male names like “Greg” with attributes stereotypical
of male leaders, like “assertive.”
After one year, these implicit biases vanished; they were no
more likely to associate “Emily”
with nurturance than with assertiveness. The same study also
found that attending a coed
university had the opposite effect on female undergraduates.
After one year, they were even more likely to associate “Greg”
with assertiveness. What accounts for the difference? The
mediating factor was not, the evidence suggests, a supportive or
encouraging atmosphere. The difference evidently boiled down to
the total number of classes that students had taken with female
math and science professors, that is, with female professors in
historically maledominated fields.
In fact, a closer look at the data showed that this was true
regardless of which institution they attended. What’s just as
striking is the fact that neither group showed any changes in
their reflective, self-reported beliefs about women, nurturance,
and leadership.
Before as well as after, at both schools, participants
consistently claimed that women possess more supportive
qualities than leadership ones. :( ???[/quote]
This first part is about gender roles. Wait until we get to
judging (i.e. "pre" ;)) the level of threat in the behavior of
same or other races (hint: the behavior, look, stance, clothing,
etc. doesn't have BEANS to do with it and RACE has EVERYTHING to
do with it.).
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Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersona
l Fluency Part 2
By: AGelbert Date: November 15, 2013, 6:21 pm
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[quote]Implicit attitudes are studied indirectly, most commonly
by measures like the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which
tests how quickly individuals associate pairs of items, such as
male and female names with leadership traits.2 Implicit
attitudes contrast with explicit attitudes, which are
paradigmatically expressed in individuals’ reflective judgments
and self-reported commitments.
How are we to understand cases such as these in which our
automatic, intuitive responses come apart from our considered
commitments?
The 2004 study is particularly striking in that the automatic,
virtually unconscious tendencies of students in the women’s
college seem to have been in some sense getting it right while
their [b]reflective judgments persisted in getting it wrong.
:o[/quote]
[quote]Implicit attitudes shape a wide range of pivotal
decisions
and actions without our ever realizing it. They influence our
judgments about whom to trust and whom to ignore, whom to
promote and whom to imprison. While it would be a mistake to
think that implicit attitudes are intrinsically bad or
regrettable features of human psychology, our failure to
appreciate what they are and how they affect us can cause
serious and pervasive harm.[/quote]
[quote]In the paradigmatic cases I consider in this
dissertation, the challenge is what to do about the implicit
attitudes that get it wrong.
For example, while fewer and fewer Americans openly avow racist
and sexist beliefs, subtle but pervasive forms of disparate
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Some researchers have suggested that part of the explanation for
this state of affairs is that many Americans have egalitarian
explicit attitudes—in that they sincerely embrace anti-racist
and antisexist commitments—but nevertheless harbor a range of
biased implicit attitudes.
In one study, participants evaluated two hypothetical candidates
for a job as chief of police.3 One candidate had extensive
“street” experience but little formal education; the other had
extensive formal education but little street experience. When
the street-smart candidate was male and the book smart candidate
was female, participants said that street smarts were the most
important criteria for being an effective police chief, and
recommended promoting the man.
However, when the street-smart candidate was female and the
book-smart candidate was male, participants said book smarts
were more important, and, once again, recommended the man.
They unwittingly tailored their judgments about the tools
necessary to be a successful police chief to match their gut
feeling that the man was better suited than the woman for the
job. :P :o ???[/quote]
The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias &
Interpersonal Fluency by Alex Madva
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2013, 7:35 pm
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Transcript:
Peter Z. Scheer: A question is “how should people of color
respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil
to them?”
[audience laughter and applause]
Chris Hedges: Well, I teach every Thursday night at a maximum
security prison and I spent significant amounts of time with
this book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” in statistically
the poorest pockets of the country and the creation of
omnipotent police forces, especially in urban areas has set a
template. As anyone who knows has spent time in depressed urban
areas, police on pretext stops can seize and incarcerate—you
only get a few minutes with a public defender—anyone they want.
And I find often in the prisons the people with the longest
sentences are the people who refused to plea out because they
were not guilty. But if you don’t plea out you’re finished; and
they know it, the whole system’s rigged.
And one of the reasons that I would hope that those who were in
many cities the engine of the Occupy movement, which were
primarily underemployed or unemployed college educated kids,
would begin to reach out to marginal communities not so much
because I think these communities now are so broken and of
course such a high dis-proportion of especially African-American
men are within the system. Not just in prison but on parole; I
mean they have all sorts of ways to cripple your life. I think
that we have to make amends to these communities because we …
[audience applause]
… by supporting the Democratic Party, and in particular figures
like Clinton, which rammed through the Omnibus bill and created
a massive prison industrial complex, destroyed welfare—which as
Bob points out 70 percent of the recipients in the old welfare
system were children—passed NAFTA. We busied ourselves with a
kind of boutique activism, multiculturalism, all of which I
support, but at the expense of justice. We forgot about justice.
And our poor and our working class were decimated. And what has
happened now, there has been a Weimarization of the American
working class. What’s happened to the working class is now being
visited on the middle class; I mean this is how history works.
So, I think there’s a, for those of us who care about social
change, one of the reasons we have to reach out to these
communities—and one of the reasons I teach in the prison
system—is because we have to make atonement for, in essence,
turning our back on these people, while in the name of a kind of
faux liberalism a war was made against their very beings.
[audience applause]
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2013, 7:55 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: DeBlasio changed his name from Warren Wilhelm to
win an election. He comes from a family with some members in the
CIA. He is a bought and paid for Clinton Clone. I don't like him
for that reason. However the incredibly racist piece of crap by
Cohen that Colbert exposed is worthy of PRAISE!
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A Famous Columnist Has Trouble Defining Racism. Colbert Eats Him
For Dinner.
Here’s the quote:
“Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the
tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of
government, about immigration, about secularism, about the
mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with
conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering
the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black
woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that
Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?)”
Wait, what?!
Alvin Melathe
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2013, 10:50 pm
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[move]Rumplestiltskin must have been quite a happy fellow! ;D
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Does a Person’s Name Impact Happiness?[/center]
A person’s name might affect his or her happiness, because
people who have rare names report higher levels of happiness
than those with more common names, research shows. Researchers
believe this could be the result of humans’ subconscious desire
to be considered unique from others. Research also reveals that
people who have common names are likely to rate their names as
being more rare than they actually are, a psychology term
referred to as the false uniqueness effect. ;D
More about the impact of names:
•About 20% of parents reported regretting their children’s
names, according to one 2013 British study. Common reasons were
the difficulty other people had spelling the name or that it was
too unusual.
•Boys who have been given names that are traditionally
associated with girls have been found to be at a higher risk of
disciplinary problems during adolescence, :o which is thought
to be because of self-consciousness from being teased about
their names.
•A person who has high self-esteem is more likely to prefer
words that contain the same letters as his or her name,
especially words that include the first letter of the name. ;)
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Agelbert NOTE:[size=10pt] Why is this posted in the "Mechanisms
of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden" Board? Because arrogant
individuals often have very high (and totally unjustified) self
esteem. These people are NOT trustworthy. Their main prejudice
is that they lack humility and honestly believe they are more
valuable to society than anyone around them. consequently, if
the situation is them or you for survival, they will ALWAYS
decide for THEM.
Altruism does not exist in these people but they can put on
quite a show. The last tidbit from Wisegeek will help you pick
up on whether a person has gone overboard in the self esteem
department if they happen to be good at disguising their
arrogance.
As always, this is just one factor and you need to weigh
carefully many other behavioral characteristics of your
acquaintances to determine if they are trustworthy or not.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: William Hunter Duncan Date: November 19, 2013, 8:28 pm
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date=1384836619]
[move]Rumplestiltskin must have been quite a happy fellow!
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Does a Person’s Name Impact Happiness?
A person’s name might affect his or her happiness, because
people who have rare names report higher levels of happiness
than those with more common names, research shows. Researchers
believe this could be the result of humans’ subconscious desire
to be considered unique from others. Research also reveals that
people who have common names are likely to rate their names as
being more rare than they actually are, a psychology term
referred to as the false uniqueness effect. ;D
More about the impact of names:
•About 20% of parents reported regretting their children’s
names, according to one 2013 British study. Common reasons were
the difficulty other people had spelling the name or that it was
too unusual.
•Boys who have been given names that are traditionally
associated with girls have been found to be at a higher risk of
disciplinary problems during adolescence, :o which is thought
to be because of self-consciousness from being teased about
their names.
•A person who has high self-esteem is more likely to prefer
words that contain the same letters as his or her name,
especially words that include the first letter of the name. ;)
Agelbert NOTE: Why is this here? Because arrogant individuals
often have very high (and totally unjustified) self esteem.
These people are NOT trustworthy. Their main prejudice is that
they lack humility and honestly believe they are more valuable
to society than anyone around them. consequently, if the
situation is them or you for survival, they will ALWAYS decide
for THEM.
Altruism does not exist in these people but they can put on
quite a show. The last tidbit from Wisegeek will help you pick
up on whether a person has gone overboard in the self esteem
department if they happen to be good at disguising their
arrogance.
As always, this is just one factor and you need to weigh
carefully many other behavioral characteristics of your
aquiantances to determine if they are trustworthy or not.
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agelbert,
Mehopes you weigh behavioral characteristics before you make
judgements.
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William Hunter Duncan
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: November 20, 2013, 10:55 pm
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Absolutely! ;D
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: January 5, 2014, 7:42 pm
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[center]The role of rationalization in justifying criminal
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: February 15, 2014, 3:26 pm
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[move]SATIRE[/I][/move]
[center]Conservative Libertarian Senator Prudentius Windy is all
in a lather over the horrendous waste of taxpayer dollars in
gated communities:[/center]
"How is it possible that these PEOPLE that live in these gated
communities at taxpayer expense are allowed to live there
free?". Our country needs to be responsible and have a balanced
budget when military expenses are not the issue! These
freeloaders need to be sent out to work on environmental
cleanups and other worthy projects for the good of the gated
communities and America!. They will learn discipline and
responsibility that they don't seem capable of obtaining in
their family units due to the lack of values central to REAL
Americans. We may never be able to get them to talk English
properly but we CAN make them stop mooching from the good people
of the USA!".
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[center]Gated Community[/center]
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[center]Secure facilities paid by taxpayers. No worries about
crime of any sort. Patrolled 24/7 at no expense to those housed.
Free food too! It's an OUTRAGE![/center]
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[center]Freeloaders loafing in gated community[/center]
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[center]Stop these FREELOADERS! Make them work for their
privileged gate community life [i]even if we can't EVER expect
them to talk like REAL Americans![/center]
Note: Photo of evil FREELOADER was picked at random without
regard to race, color, creed, nationality, sex, pimples,
ugliness or general appearance. We pick photos in a totally
impartial fashion. [img
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