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Less Confident people are more scared of black people.

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The neuroscience behind why white cops kill black men

For example, studies have shown that while some white individuals answer survey questions with responses that reflect positive attitudes toward blacks, their behavioral responses on certain psychological tests reveal a different story. In one particular type of classic experiment, white participants are asked to quickly categorize words that pop up on a computer screen as either positive (like “happy”) or negative (like “fear”). However, just before each word is displayed, either a black or a white face quickly appears on the screen. What scientists have found time and time again, is that on average, white individuals categorize negative words much faster when they follow black faces, and positive words faster when they follow white faces. What these studies show is that many of us, despite what we believe about ourselves, have split-second negative reactions towards members of certain other races. And unfortunately, these subconscious racist tendencies may affect behavior in the real world, especially when police officers need to make blink-of-an-eye decisions about how to respond to a perceived threat.
Another type of experiment has provided further evidence that white individuals tend to subconsciously perceive black males as threatening. All individuals, regardless of race, show something that scientists call an “attention bias” for threat. For example, hundreds of studies have shown that humans tend to move their attention more quickly towards threatening aspects of the environment. In something called a “visual search task,” participants are instructed to locate one specific object in a clutter of objects on a computer screen while their eye movements are tracked. The data has shown that people are able to locate threatening objects, like spiders, or angry faces, much faster than they can find non-threatening ones
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This is fascinating. So this can help us, we have to test all police officers for these attention biases, and fire the ones who have them.
 
I did that test in my woman studies coarse...I am not sure it's proof that it actually means anything...

I got that I'm completely unbiased... had the same reaction time in both cases.

Professors go off on it though... they think this is proof for everything...
 
Shadowless said:
This is fascinating. So this can help us, we have to test all police officers for these attention biases, and fire the ones who have them.
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-_- you're going to fire someone based on a random test that could mean absolutely nothing? Really regulate people based on it? Both black and white officers?

In the womans studies course I took.... the entire class accept for maybe 2 people (me and one other) came out with a bias
 
At some point in time, out of fairness, police officers should be given a seat at the table and allowed to speak freely and perhaps anonymously, with regards to encounters that have shaped their behavior towards other races.
 
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Less confident people are scared of anyone who they feel is different than them.

Less confident black folks are probably scared of white folks.

You probably get the same results swapping out any less confident group of people with another, they'll most likely be scared of someone who is different than they are.

Especially if that person has confidence.

People with confidence are the ones who really scares folks with less confidence. No matter what your race.
 
Ray410 said:
At some point in time, out of fairness, police officers should be given a seat at the table and allowed to speak freely and perhaps anonymously, with regards to encounters that have shaped their behavior towards other races.
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Yeah man, out of fairness lol.

It'll go like this.

"Hey blacks, why do you make me feel so inferior?"

"You're not, you just feel that way because you are a ***** to begin with"
 
celticwar17 said:
I did that test in my woman studies coarse...I am not sure it's proof that it actually means anything...

I got that I'm completely unbiased... had the same reaction time in both cases.

Professors go off on it though... they think this is proof for everything...
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The issue is confidence. Being afraid of the unknown.

If you grew up around blacks and whites, you probably won't react differently to being shown a pic of a black dude v a white dude.

The professor has probably emotionally invested so much into that little study's that he'd likely not wanna hear anything telling him different. And that would be kinda Ironic. Scared of the unknown...
 
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Is there a neuroscience behind why black men kill black men?
 
Dragonfly said:
Is there a neuroscience behind why black men kill black men?
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If you don't know the answer to that, then maybe deep thinking isn't your thing.

Try the Leisure Activities forum lol.
 
celticwar17 said:
-_- you're going to fire someone based on a random test that could mean absolutely nothing? Really regulate people based on it? Both black and white officers?

In the womans studies course I took.... the entire class accept for maybe 2 people (me and one other) came out with a bias
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Yes, absolutely. You cannot have police officers having bias towards the community they serve. The results speak for themselves through what we have seen in this country. If cops weren't murdering so many people, it wouldn't come to this.
 
Pick one race most associated with these words: Crime, Drugs, Unemployed, Uneducated.
 
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