Skip to main content

The Psychology/Body Language/Personality Thread

Here, you can participate in bias testing project conducted by Harvard.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Very interesting.

Categories below, did the skin tone one and my results -
Your result:

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Dark Skinned People over Light Skinned People.

Other People's Results

The summary of other people's results shows that most people implicitly prefer light skinned people to dark skinned people - i.e., they are faster sorting when good words and light skinned people images go with the same key including people that report they have no preference between different racial groups.

skinbreakdown.jpg




Asian IAT
Asian American ('Asian - European American' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize White and Asian-American faces, and images of places that are either American or Foreign in origin.
Sexuality IAT
Sexuality ('Gay - Straight' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish words and symbols representing gay and straight people. It often reveals an automatic preference for straight relative to gay people.
Presidents IAT
Presidents ('Presidential Popularity' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize photos of Barack Obama and one or more previous presidents.
Gender-Science IAT
Gender - Science. This IAT often reveals a relative link between liberal arts and females and between science and males.
Disability IAT
Disability ('Disabled - Abled' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize symbols representing abled and disabled individuals.
Arab-Muslim IAT
Arab-Muslim ('Arab Muslim - Other People' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish names that are likely to belong to Arab-Muslims versus people of other nationalities or religions.
Skin-tone IAT
Skin-tone ('Light Skin - Dark Skin' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize light and dark-skinned faces. It often reveals an automatic preference for light-skin relative to dark-skin.
Gender-Career IAT
Gender - Career. This IAT often reveals a relative link between family and females and between career and males.
Weight IAT
Weight ('Fat - Thin' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish faces of people who are obese and people who are thin. It often reveals an automatic preference for thin people relative to fat people.
Race IAT
Race ('Black - White' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish faces of European and African origin. It indicates that most Americans have an automatic preference for white over black.
Age IAT
Age ('Young - Old' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to distinguish old from young faces. This test often indicates that Americans have automatic preference for young over old.
Weapons IAT
Weapons ('Weapons - Harmless Objects' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize White and Black faces, and images of weapons or harmless objects.
Native IAT
Native American ('Native - White American' IAT). This IAT requires the ability to recognize White and Native American faces in either classic or modern dress, and the names of places that are either American or Foreign in origin.
 
Asian one, predictable
Your result:

Your data suggest little or no automatic association between American and Foreign with Asian American and European American.

asianambreakdown.jpg
 
i wonder what the rise of the scary right wing in the western world says about the complex psychology of human nature?
 
Mooseface said:
What are your thoughts on that Reepbot?
Click to expand...

That anger and hatred can be easy emotions to be swept up in. Right wing leaders saying "oh i understand your pain" by providing them with surface level ideas to fix the problems they face in regards to their job situation.
 
I got a strong science/male arts/female association, but it bugged me that you had to sort the words into those two groups first, and then change to sorting into science/female arts/male groups. It seems to me you would always get worse results when they flip the associations because you've just learnt to do it the other way. Though maybe they take that into acccount.
 
reepbot said:
i wonder what the rise of the scary right wing in the western world says about the complex psychology of human nature?
Click to expand...

I think it's just part of a ongoing rejection of the complexity of modern society and rate of social change itself that's been happening since about 1980. That's was about peak-rationality for Western civilisation. That's my two cents.
 
oddjob said:
I got a strong science/male arts/female association, but it bugged me that you had to sort the words into those two groups first, and then change to sorting into science/female arts/male groups. It seems to me you would always get worse results when they flip the associations because you've just learnt to do it the other way. Though maybe they take that into acccount.
Click to expand...

I got slight science/male arts/female association.[DOUBLEPOST=1481375108][/DOUBLEPOST]
oddjob said:
I think it's just part of a ongoing rejection of the complexity of modern society and rate of social change itself that's been happening since about 1980. That's was about peak-rationality for Western civilisation. That's my two cents.
Click to expand...

Why the year 1980?
 
i should write more personality stuff.[DOUBLEPOST=1481953188][/DOUBLEPOST]i think next year i should be safe enough to write a personality and psychology diary on this thread.

i hope.

like maybe next june.
 
http://antipersonality.webflow.io/

Got:

DISSOCIATE
You are understandably disconnected from the world around you. Things are in a bad way and it’s hard to engage and see the reality of what’s happening, but it might be time to engage. Sometimes not caring as much as others can be useful.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top