Tracking prejudices in the brain
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 22:00
in Psychology & Sociology
We do not always say what we think: we like to hide certain prejudices, sometimes even from ourselves. But unconscious prejudices become visible with tests, because we need a longer time if we must associate unpleasant things with positive terms. Researchers now show that additional processes in the brain are not responsible for this, but some of them simply take longer.