Journal: News & Comment

Wednesday, December 11, 2002
# 8:46:00 AM:

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The New York Times reports (free registration required) that, when forced to make snap decisions under time pressure or stress, people often fall back on racial stereotypes, even when we are consciously unprejudiced. In research studies, people "are often upset at having displayed biases that they neither agreed with nor approved of."

You can test some of your own hidden biases online. I was sad to find my own.

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