Wednesday, August 26, 2015
How the Blind "See" Race
"'The visual process of assigning race is instantaneous, and it's an
example of automatic thinking -- it happens below the level of
awareness,' [Asia] Friedman [,assistant professor at the University of Delaware,] said. 'With blind people, the process is much
slower as they piece together information about a person over time.
Their thinking is deliberative rather than automatic, and even after
they've categorized someone by race, they're often not certain that
they're correct.'" That's from a post on Medical News Today. Read more.
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