Post-Racial: Darker Skin On White People Leads To Positive Bias For Darker Skin

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 05:01 in Psychology & Sociology

The Rubber Hand illusion never fails to teach us new things - not just about neuroscience, but also about culture. If you are not familiar with the Rubber Hand illusion, it shows that the combination of seeing a touch on a rubber hand and feeing a touch on your own creates the illusion that the fake hand is now part of your body. In a new paper, scholars did that; they asked participants to look at a fake hand being touched, while at the same time the experimenter touched the participants' own hand, hidden out of view. read more

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