Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases
" . . .That study found that supporters of President Bush and other
conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against
blacks than liberals did . . .
" 'What automatic biases reveal is that while we have the feeling we
are living up to our values, that feeling may not be right,' said
University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek, who helped conduct
the race analysis.' We are not aware of everything that causes our
behavior, even things in our own lives.' . . .
" . . .For their study, Nosek, Banaji and social psychologist Erik
Thompson culled self-acknowledged views about blacks from nearly
130,000 whites, who volunteered online to participate in a widely used
test of racial bias that measures the speed of people's associations
between black or white faces and positive or negative words. The
researchers examined correlations between explicit and implicit
attitudes and voting behavior in all 435 congressional districts.
"The analysis found that substantial majorities of Americans, liberals
and conservatives, found it more difficult to associate black faces
with positive concepts than white faces -- evidence of implicit bias.
But districts that registered higher levels of bias systematically
produced more votes for Bush.
" 'Obviously, such research does not speak at all to the question of
the prejudice level of the president,' said Banaji, but it does show
that George W. Bush is appealing as a leader to those Americans who
harbor greater anti-black prejudice.' http://tinyurl.com/bx9qd
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