microrobert
05-15-2013, 01:03 PM
Weird Skin Color Illusion Can Reduce Racism
Here's a novel way to reduce racism: Convince people their skin is darker than it really is.
No need to break out the tanning booth. A new study finds that an illusion that makes people feel that a rubber hand is their own can make white people less unconsciously biased against people with dark skin.
"It comes down to a perceived similarity between white and dark skin," study researcher Lara Maister, a psychologist at Royal Holloway University of London, said in a 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."
http://www.livescience.com/32014-skin-color-illusion-reduce-racism.html
Here's a novel way to reduce racism: Convince people their skin is darker than it really is.
No need to break out the tanning booth. A new study finds that an illusion that makes people feel that a rubber hand is their own can make white people less unconsciously biased against people with dark skin.
"It comes down to a perceived similarity between white and dark skin," study researcher Lara Maister, a psychologist at Royal Holloway University of London, said in a 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."
http://www.livescience.com/32014-skin-color-illusion-reduce-racism.html