Biased? It May Just Be Your Low Self-Esteem

Think all Republicans are anti-science or religious people are stupid?  You may look for data to rationalize your bias but a new study in Psychological Science says it may just be your own low self-esteem; when people are feeling badly about themselves, they're more likely to show bias against people who are different from them.  Jeffrey Sherman of the University of California, Davis, who wrote the study with Thomas Allen, used the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a task designed to assess people's automatic reactions to words and/or images, to investigate this claim. read more

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