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Giving White People The Illusion Of Darker Skin Makes Them Less Racist

An optical illusion can change the implicit biases of Caucasian people against people with darker skin, according to a study published in the August 2013 edition of Cognition.

The research, a collaboration between Royal Holloway University of London, the Central European University in Budapest and Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, analyzed the implicit racial biases of 34 Caucasian participants, then subjected them to something called the Rubber Hand Illusion, where they watched a rubber hand being touched by a paintbrush as they felt their own hand being stimulated out of sight. The illusion creates the sense that the fake hand is part of the subject’s body, even when it’s of a completely different skin color.

The more the participants felt like the darker skinned fake hand was their own, the less racist they came off in a second implicit bias test.

In another test, participants underwent the same process, but some saw a white hand, while others saw a dark hand. The implicit bias test showed that the opinions of those who saw the white hand didn’t change, while again those who felt ownership of the darker hand felt less racial bias.

“Across two experiments, the more intense the participants’ illusion of ownership over the dark-skinned rubber hand, the more positive their implicit racial attitudes became,” the authors write.

“It comes down to a perceived similarity between white and dark skin,” lead author Lara Maister of Royal Holloway University of London said in a press statement. “The illusion creates an overlap, which in turn helps to reduce negative attitudes because participants see less difference between themselves and those with dark skin.”

The study suggests that racial biases aren’t necessarily cemented by adulthood, but that they can be altered. “Changes in body-representation may therefore constitute a core, previously unexplored, dimension that in turn changes social cognition processes,” the authors write. They suggest that future research into different social groups and stereotypes could expand on their work, since this research only explored the attitudes of white individuals.

they done all these movies like white chicks and freaky friends where black guys masquerade as white chicks or bodies are switch

when is a white guy gonna be stuck in an black’s man body

and a black person in a white’s man body

that would be some hilarious fucking shit

then you throw chow from the hang over in there hahah the motherfucking wild card.

i just put my free 10mil dollar box office idea out there.

go tell your boss so you can get a raise for next year

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salenat0r:

YES

they used to cost a quarter…the most, a buck 75 cents.

now it is like…do you do movie rentals too??

sentimentalsaturdays:

Okay. Let me clear the fuck out of this shit, because it is REALLY pissing me off.

Psy was an extremely well-known, well-respected musician WELL before Gangnam Style was even fucking thought of. He’s one of the senior musicians of South Korea and he gets a lot of respect for his fearless stages and the way he writes songs to say whatever the hell he wants and believes, regardless of the Korean public’s extremely judgmental eye. I’m so sick of the way he’s being treated all around the world ever since Gangnam Style went viral, he’s just being called here and there to do the dance and whatever and then being sent off like he’s just a comedy dud. When he came on Ellen, she didn’t even bother fucking introducing him, he had to interrupt and ask to introduce himself. He came out on stage and she literally just asked him to teach the dance before he even said anything. Like that is so flat out disrespectful are you kidding me.

Point being, before you ignorant ass little fucktards decided he was the new laughingstock of the world and decided all on your own that he was just some annoying, talentless little comedy figure, get your fucking facts straight. Learn some respect, especially to the people that deserve/have already earned it.

“Ellen, she didn’t even bother fucking introducing him, he had to interrupt and ask to introduce himself.” - sometimes we get caught up in the excitement of emotions we forget to introduce our guests. Yes, being a host you should always introduce your guest and add in a few commendable attribute about hem but Ellen forget. Especially since he came out dancing and full of energy so she got caught up in his frequency—-his wave—his energy. And sometimes things like that just happens so it is okay. It happens with your friends as well as mine all the time. It is a human thing.

Sometimes I purposely do not introduce my friends to other friends because i want to see if they got balls to introduce themselves. And remember the he Psy introduce himself…he doesn’t have the american mannerisms down. He introduce himself the best he could.

“Why did he ask to just introduce himself. That was completely uncalled for.” - a youtube comment

You understand how well mannered and polite it is to ask Ellen permission to introduce themselves. It is her show, she is the host, so she has complete authority of what is going on so for him to ask her it was his way of saying “hey, you forget to introduce me but let me get your consent if i can introduce myself to the audience and viewers at home.” And Ellen of course say he could.

That is fucking courtsey. That is fucking manners. He isn’t from US. He is from Korea and he came here so what he did was fucking awesome.

Imagine you being a popstar going to europe or korea and the host there didn’t introduce you. You really gonna start off saying, “HEy, My name is Dumbass No-manners! How is everyone?” No, you ask for permission from the host to introduce yourself and how glad you are ot be invited to onto the show. How a king is——-a humble king

(Source: tumblingmusical, via carnalitea)

regoapps:

Charles Ramsey, the guy who saved the three kidnapped women, is giving up over $25,000 in reward money and giving it to the victims.

Today’s lesson: Be more like this guy. Remind yourself that you’re not the center of the universe. If everyone just put themselves in other people’s shoes instead of only looking out for himself, then perhaps we’d all stop treating each other like crap.

Even if you’re selfish, there’s a reason not to be. Treat others poorly, and they in turn will treat others poorly. This keeps being transferred like a disease until one day it comes back to you and someone treats you poorly. So helping others benefits you as well. The benefits are just not as immediate.

i like what he practice

because he practice what he preaches

and same with the mindset of the post above me.

Be like Jay-z and kanye. Boost each other up. It makes your game so much better. I hate hanging with niggahs who put their homies down…especially in front of girls. You aren’t helping your cause. A street smart girl & book smart girl (basically a girl) knows we are the attribute of our five closest friends.

That is how I know what kind of girl I am dating. I just check out how she hangs out with her friends. Why observe her friends, man?? Everyone is different, dude. No shit, fool. I didn’t say her character is the combination of her 5 best friends. I can dig deeper btw. I am saying certain characteristics of her can be projected when she hangs with her closest friends.

Cuz face it. When you converse with someone they speak only their good qualities  Qualities they proudly display and act just because no one wants to talk to a person who display loser-like qualities. That is just a bad 1st impression. So it is your job to see the degree of truth in the qualities they present to you.

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mandie-in-wonderland:

Now see here all you lucky bitches growing up bragging about yo’ nickelodeon and disney channel and cartoon network and whateva cable crap
well some of us didn’t have cable
we had antennas
we had ANTENNAS
I am here to pay homage to the ANTENNAS and to the parents who had to tweak them all the goshfrakkin time just so we didn’t have a crinkly crappy picture on our PBS KIDS

So Here are some things in memory of PBS Kids….

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

Clifford The Big Red Dog

Caillou


Arthur

Between The Lions

Dragon Tales

Zoboomafoo

Redwall

Teletubbies

…..and let us not forget the very few commercials, which mostly consisted of…

“Juicy Juice….100% Juice! For 100% Kids!”

Chuck-E-Cheese…Where a Kid Can Be a Kid!!

And never forget after every show….

so do not forget everyone

this is MY childhood
some of us had antennas, not cables.
thank you :)

I think you are forgetting someone very very important!

FUCKERS YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE

Z O O M BITCHES

im sorry but wishbone is superior to everything ever 

these shows were the best

Don’t forget Channel Chasers! Or Kids WB

How can you leave out Cyberchase! That show was the best!

I remember Cyberchase. And the rest of these shows. For the most part

i never seen red wall on pbs kids…shrugg. i was probably too fucking old to notice. THey didn’t have couliou or between the lions back then.

i read all the red wall books in my 6-7th grade

nostalgia….300+ pages per novel. Redwall collection had like 8-9 books

redwall would make a great disney movie

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