Word: subconsciouses
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Hamermesh, who has studied discrimination at all levels, says that bias is instilled in infancy - much like enduring personality traits such as shyness or high self-esteem - as an essential part of human behavior. "We all have these subconscious preferences for our own group," he says. Ever the economist, Hamermesh...
“It’s the culture’s thumb print in our minds,” Green said. “If you’re raised in this country in a certain social group, with certain media, your mind is conditioned in a certain way...
Whether or not the Quad residents who called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) were motivated by subconscious racism, the incident provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on continuing problems with race-relations and the experience of minorities at Harvard.
Progress on that front will only happen when the campus engages in an honest and thorough dialog about race relations. While the incident at the Quad was of course deeply regrettable, it at least served the valuable function of reminding students that complacency and subconscious bias are ongoing problems at...
Which is fine with him. "If work is rich enough, then its meaning doesn't have to be tacked down to a one-liner," he says. "People can move into it in a lot of different ways." So to enter and circulate within the distorted bowl of his Torqued Ellipse...