Comments | belenen: Findings Friday: people empathize w unknown-race strangers, but not w known-other-race strangers

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Findings Friday: people empathize w unknown-race strangers, but not w known-other-race strangers

Aug 12, 2016 23:59

icon: "Ma'at (a photo of one side of a brass balance scale, with a feather inside the bowl. The background is sky blue. On the bottom of the image, below the photo, is the word "Ma'at")"Avenanti, Sirigu and Aglioti (2010) tested white and black people on their empathy for same-race, other-race, and unknown-race people using TMS (transcranial ( Read more... )

findings friday, social justice / feminism, empathy, race, self-educating

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belenen September 4 2016, 19:37:03 UTC

I would have performed the study only on people who had the same national identity but different races. So, in this study if they had sampled from white and black people who were all born and raised in the same country, then you would actually be measuring race and not have the latent factor of national identity.