The blog covering Chicago's Trinity United Church puts together a trove of web resources covering the hidden aspects of race in society.
Even in people with genuinely egalitarian views, Banaji and her colleagues find that bias is ordinary and ingrained and remains active outside our awareness. When the team realized the power of unconscious attitudes in everyday decision making, she says, "we knew the right thing was to take this to the public." On an IAT Web site (implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/), users can try 14 measures--to find out whether they automatically favor young over old, for instance, or prefer thin to overweight. Ten new sections include country-specific IATs, such as Muslim-Hindu and Pakistan-India associations.
There is an associations test for sexuality. As always, it's never clear what psychology is measuring, but I found it interesting.
Check it out. See how you score. Let other readers know what you thought about your "e"'s and "i"'s...
Do racial attitudes have national security implications?
The Article [forthcoming CT law review] begins by examining the continued societal relevance of the concept of whiteness, analyzing the construction of a distinct Middle-Eastern taxonomy, and charting the transformation of Middle-Eastern Americans in the public imagination from friendly foreigners to a veritable enemy race.
