A recent University of Houston (UH) study suggests that long-term exposure to news may negatively influence racial bias towards social groups.
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May 28, 2015
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Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers—they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study.
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Aug 11, 2013
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Is the US Tea Party movement a racial backlash against President Obama? A new study by Angie Maxwell from the University of Arkansas, and Wayne Parent from Louisiana State University, assesses whether racial attitudes are ...
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Jun 18, 2013
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(Phys.org)—More than 75 percent of Americans believe they will see a female president in their lifetime, according to a comprehensive national survey conducted by two entities of the University of Arkansas System. The poll ...
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Feb 7, 2013
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(Phys.org)—This might not be a "post-racial" era after all.
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Nov 2, 2012
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An online study of eligible voters around the country revealed that the preference for whites over blacks is the strongest in the least politically-partisan voters. Among these voters, race biases against Barack Obama could ...
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Oct 2, 2012
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Voters' racial attitudes, both conscious and unconscious, may be a significant factor in this year's U.S. presidential election, particularly since whites tend to prefer people of their own race, according to research presented ...
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Aug 6, 2012
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After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already ...
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May 7, 2012
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Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study in the March issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, which ...
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Feb 22, 2012
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Images from racial theme parties that are posted on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace not only elicit different reactions from different people based on their race and their attitudes toward diversity, ...
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Apr 21, 2010
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