By: Phillip Atiba Goff
For the better part of the past seven years, my colleagues and I have conducted research on the psychological phenomenon of dehumanization. Specifically, we have examined cognitive associations between African Americans and non-human apes. And the association leads to bad things. When we began the research, we were skeptical of whether or not participants even knew that people of African descent were caricatured as ape-like — as less than human — throughout the better part of the past 400 years. And, in fact, many were not. However, even those who were unaware of this historical association demonstrated a cognitive association between blacks and apes. That is, when they thought of apes, they thought of blacks and vice versa — when they thought of blacks, they thought of apes.
But the fact of this cognitive association was not the most disturbing part of the research. Rather, it was the fact that the association between blacks and apes could lead
Another pseudo intelect trying to deny the impact of Darwinism in dehumanizing mankind.
He is such an idiot. We all know biology class insist we are all in the family of apes.
Darwin denier.
As a Psychologist myself, It reminds me that My college dean says the difference between the patients and the staff boils down to who has keys to the doors.
