Archive for the ‘Prejudice’ category

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NPR’s flagship news program, MORNING EDITION, has featured The Hidden Brain in an interview.
You can read about it and listen to the interview using this link.
If you have trouble accessing the site, you can download an MP3 file of the interview here.

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Salon.com features an interview about The Hidden Brain.
“Of the many viral-video meltdowns pop culture has endured, few are as viscerally disturbing, as painful to watch, as Michael Richards’ racist rant during a 2006 stand-up appearance. As you’ll no doubt remember, the man better known as Kramer lashed out at a heckler in his audience with [...]

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I have an oped in the New York Times today discussing an issue that I explore at length in the book — the problem of colorism. Most people think about racial prejudice as being merely about how whites think about blacks, but the reality is far more complicated and nuanced. The issue is not [...]

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More reviews from Amazon readers … This one from H.F. Gibbard
This has to be the most readable book about how the mind works that I have picked up in ages. There is not a dull chapter in the book, and the writing at times reaches a level worthy of a good novel. The ideas explored [...]

Obama-&-Skin-Tone

January 10th, 2010

The U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finds himself in hot water today because he once asserted (before Barack Obama was elected President) that the fact Obama was “light-skinned” could speak without a “Negro dialect” meant he could have a serious shot at running for president. The comments were reported in a new book called Game [...]

Fighting Bias in Negotiations

January 9th, 2010

I gave a talk yesterday about The Hidden Brain at the John F Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. My comments centered on The Invisible
Current chapter in my book, which deals with the issue of sexism — how to
identify it, how to measure it, and what we can do about it.
As often happens at these [...]

New Reviews on Amazon

January 3rd, 2010

There are several new reviews of The Hidden Brain at Amazon. Here are some excerpts:
<<Beyond having your own beliefs about your open-minded equanimity questioned, this book is really fascinating. The myriad ways in which our behavior is determined by a part of our mind totally inaccessible to our reasoning, and totally beyond our control, is [...]

Literary Success and Sexism

December 30th, 2009

An interesting oped today in The Washington Post explores the effects of sexism in literature. Julianna Baggott offers provocative evidence that men are far more likely than women to achieve literary success, for equivalent efforts. I was especially taken with the research she cites that shows when volunteers think a play is written by a [...]

A Parking Meter Puzzle

December 4th, 2009

An interesting new study has just come out in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Amy Hendren and Hartmut Blank set up a field experiment where they had a person wearing a t-shirt approach strangers and ask for 10 pence to feed a parking meter. In all, 240 strangers were approached.
In some cases, the t-shirt displayed [...]