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Parody Alcove: This is bad news. Not just street activism -- but various political, academic, and media careers on the left depend on systemic oppression in all its various forms as a constant reality for crusaders to rally around. To remedy this shortfall, standards for what counts as social injustice must be raised and refined, and new population groups must be sought, distinguished, and encouraged to recognize and adopt their status as victims.
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Study finds global downturn in bias against stigmatized groups
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079480
INTRO: In a study that tracked explicit and implicit bias against stigmatized groups in 33 countries between 2009 and 2019, researchers found substantial reductions in explicit, self-reported bias against all categories of stigma they examined: age, race, body weight, skin tone and sexual orientation. The picture for implicit bias, which is sometimes described as “hidden” or “automatically revealed” bias, was more varied, however.
The new findings are reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
“We used data from Project Implicit, a website established in the early 2000s that serves both as a venue to educate people about implicit processes and as a site for collecting data,” said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi, who led the research with Tessa Charlesworth, a professor in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The data was collected from 1.4 million participants from 33 countries mostly in the northern hemisphere but also from Argentina, Australia and Brazil.
Explicit bias is what people willingly share about their attitudes toward other groups or individuals, Kurdi said. Implicit bias is revealed through other means. “This is usually a task where people are performing a behavior,” he said. “For example, they may be asked to categorize images and words and, based on how quickly they can do that, we can make inferences about their attitudes.”
For example, a person may quickly associate young, thin or light-skinned people with positive traits while more readily associating people who are older, heavier or who have darker complexions with more negative attributes, Kurdi said. “If you take a test such as the Implicit Association Test, there is less opportunity for you to consciously control your response,” he said.
When analyzing data from people based in the U.S., previous studies found obvious downward trends in self-reported bias against various stigmatized groups.
“Since 2007, respondents in the U.S. have been expressing less anti-old/pro-young, anti-fat/pro-thin, anti-gay/pro-straight, anti-dark skin/pro-light skin and anti-Black/pro-white attitudes,” the authors of the new study wrote. “These findings align with similar, well-documented trends obtained in representative U.S. surveys … and likely reflect changing norms about the acceptability of expressing negativity toward stigmatized groups.”
The U.S. data for some types of implicit bias also showed a downward trend. “Specifically, implicit sexuality attitudes dropped in bias by 65% and are now close to neutrality. Implicit race and skin tone attitudes have also [showed declines in bias], although at slower but still notable rates of 26% and 25%, respectively,” the researchers wrote.
Implicit bias related to body weight and age remained high in the U.S., however.... (MORE - details, no ads)
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Study finds global downturn in bias against stigmatized groups
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079480
INTRO: In a study that tracked explicit and implicit bias against stigmatized groups in 33 countries between 2009 and 2019, researchers found substantial reductions in explicit, self-reported bias against all categories of stigma they examined: age, race, body weight, skin tone and sexual orientation. The picture for implicit bias, which is sometimes described as “hidden” or “automatically revealed” bias, was more varied, however.
The new findings are reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
“We used data from Project Implicit, a website established in the early 2000s that serves both as a venue to educate people about implicit processes and as a site for collecting data,” said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi, who led the research with Tessa Charlesworth, a professor in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The data was collected from 1.4 million participants from 33 countries mostly in the northern hemisphere but also from Argentina, Australia and Brazil.
Explicit bias is what people willingly share about their attitudes toward other groups or individuals, Kurdi said. Implicit bias is revealed through other means. “This is usually a task where people are performing a behavior,” he said. “For example, they may be asked to categorize images and words and, based on how quickly they can do that, we can make inferences about their attitudes.”
For example, a person may quickly associate young, thin or light-skinned people with positive traits while more readily associating people who are older, heavier or who have darker complexions with more negative attributes, Kurdi said. “If you take a test such as the Implicit Association Test, there is less opportunity for you to consciously control your response,” he said.
When analyzing data from people based in the U.S., previous studies found obvious downward trends in self-reported bias against various stigmatized groups.
“Since 2007, respondents in the U.S. have been expressing less anti-old/pro-young, anti-fat/pro-thin, anti-gay/pro-straight, anti-dark skin/pro-light skin and anti-Black/pro-white attitudes,” the authors of the new study wrote. “These findings align with similar, well-documented trends obtained in representative U.S. surveys … and likely reflect changing norms about the acceptability of expressing negativity toward stigmatized groups.”
The U.S. data for some types of implicit bias also showed a downward trend. “Specifically, implicit sexuality attitudes dropped in bias by 65% and are now close to neutrality. Implicit race and skin tone attitudes have also [showed declines in bias], although at slower but still notable rates of 26% and 25%, respectively,” the researchers wrote.
Implicit bias related to body weight and age remained high in the U.S., however.... (MORE - details, no ads)