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“Black or white”, “East or West” are not racially or culturally exhaustive.
Black (#000000) and white (#FFFFFF) are opposite colours, because they have opposite RGB values. As these colour names have been used as labels for racial categories, sometimes Americans make the...
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Declaring your anti-racist intentions may make you more racist.
It is probably not a good idea to publicly declare that you intend to be less racist, or that you are trying to be less racist. Doing so may make you less likely to change, which would result in you...
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Evolutionary psychologists invent narratives based on faulty assumptions.
In Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around? The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves., Sharon Begley (Newsweek) writes: These have not been easy days for evolutionary...
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“Easterners” are not collectivist automatons who are poor at analytical...
Figure 1. German (blue) versus Chinese (red) opinions, according to a German art exhibit. The piece was created by a German-educated Chinese woman named Yang Liu. Compare this symbolism with the term...
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“I only read Playboy for the articles.”– a study on unconscious bias
The conceit of deceit (The Economist): YOU are deciding between two magazines to read. The one you choose just happens to feature photos of women in very small swimsuits. But you do not, you claim,...
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Evolutionary psychology arguments support white supremacy.
High-profile evolutionary psychology arguments are thinly-veiled justifications for white supremacist ideology. For example, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa argues that it is natural and...
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Male IT geeks tend to think they are “low status” males.
Why are male IT geeks less successful in attracting women than other males, on average? Why are there few women in IT? Among male geeks, a popular explanation for both these phenomena is that women...
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Masking the gender and race of job applicants increases diversity in hiring.
Eric Ries writes about his experience in achieving diversity in hiring by masking identifying information from the résumés (emphasis mine): Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black...
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Environmental and social barriers restrict women in science, tech,...
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (PDF) is a new, publicly-accessible research report by AAUW that “presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research...
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Evolutionary Psychology Bingo Card
Via Language Log. Apparently, it is by Punkassblog, which was also linked from a Feminist Philosophers post from 2007. Related posts: Blondes are sexier, because all children are white? by...
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Endorsement of racial “color-blindness” is linked to racism.
Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both online and offline (University of Illinois, via Racialicious): In a study that examined the associations between responses to racial theme party...
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White people lack empathy for brown people, brain research shows.
New research from the University of Toronto-Scarborough shows that white people’s mirror-neuron-system fires much less, if at all, when they watch people of colour performing motor tasks, and I’m not...
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White people are different from people.
In Gutsell and Inzlicht’s study showing physical evidence that white people have difficulty empathizing with non-white people, the researchers studied only white people and made a generalization about...
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White people have difficulty recognizing our emotions, but we can recognize...
From the updated post White people are different from people: In fact, group status may moderate cross-cultural emotion recognition accuracy (see Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002a; and Wolfgang &...
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Scientists are prone to unconscious sexism proved by science.
In How the sex bias prevails (The Age), Shankar Vedantam describes a randomized, controlled psychology experiment that proves the existence of unconscious sexism in the laboratory: Madeline Heilman at...
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The Myth of White Male Geek Rationality
People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields...
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Howto: Stop Worrying About Female Brain Hard-Wiring and Get Smarter
This post was originally published at Geek Feminism. This Ask a Geek Feminist question is about stereotype threat: What can I do when stereotype threat is playing games with my head? To give an...
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Women did not evolve against risk-taking and tech startups.
This is cross-posted at Geek Feminism. There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed...
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Some scientists criticize the field of evolutionary psychology.
In The evolution of rape?, PZ Myers writes: There are days when I simply cannot bear the entire field of evolutionary psychology: it’s so deeply tainted with bad research and a lack of rigor. And that...
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Men agree to casual sex more, because female strangers are not considered...
Or (Heterosexual) Male privilege, not evolution or innate female frigidness, explains the gender difference in accepting random propositions for casual sex. Gender Differences and Casual Sex: The New...
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