Topic: Racial Prejudice

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24: Handle with Care
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24: Handle with Care

Implicit Bias Testing, Affective Lexical Priming

Implicit bias testing is examined as a method used by scientists to quantify racial prejudice by measuring reaction times to images of different races. A delay of a few milliseconds in distinguishing faces is often classified as a social stereotype or "affective lexical priming" failure. The hosts question the validity of these tests, suggesting they are designed to find racism in everyone regardless of their actual beliefs or actions.