Brain Scan Roots Out Racists

[6KILLER]

It appears that the only "racists" they are targeting are White racists:

Brain Scan Roots Out Racists
Nov 16th, 2003


A brain scan to identify racists? But how do we get the suspected racists
to submit to scanning? And what do we do with the racists once we identify
them? None of it made sense until the Dowbrigade noticed that the institution
hosting this racist research was none other than the Ivy League’s Dartmouth
College, which is located waaay up in the wilds of New Hampshire, where
the magnificent isolation obviously inspires them to groundbreaking
research like this. Any inside dirt, Lisa Chau?

A brain scan that can apparently root out racists has been developed
by scientists.

The technique was used on white volunteers shown photographs of black
individuals.
In those with racist tendencies, a surge of activity was seen in part
of the brain that controls thoughts and behaviour.

After interacting with real black individuals, the same group performed
poorly in a task designed to test mental resources. The American researchers
concluded that harbouring racial prejudice, even unintentionally, stirred
up an inner struggle that exhausted the
brain.

Dr Jennifer Richeson, assistant professor of psychological and brain
sciences at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, said: "We
were surprised to find brain activity in response to faces of black individuals
predicted how research participants performed on cognitive tasks after
actual interracial interactions."

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrig...s-out-racists/

[Mike]

I contributed to their study by leaving a message:

I think that what exhausted the group and made them perform poorly in the test was the fact that stooping to the level and talking to African-Americans made them temporarily dumber.

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