Interracial interactions are cognitively demanding
A new Dartmouth study reveals that interracial contact has a profound impact on a person’s attention and performance. The researchers found new evidence using brain imaging that white individuals attempt to control racial bias when exposed to black individuals, and that this act of suppressing bias exhausts mental resources.
Published in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience on Nov. 16, the study combines the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures brain activity, with other behavioral tests common to research in social and cognitive psychology to determine how white individuals respond to black individuals.
“We were surprised to find that brain activity in response to faces of black individuals predicted how research participants performed on cognitive tasks after actual interracial interactions,” says Jennifer Richeson, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the lead author on the paper. “To my knowledge, this is the first study to use brain imaging data in tandem with more standard behavioral data to test a social psychological theory.”
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As usual, it’s white people who are the object of such pernicious Marxist social engineering experiments. It’s time to put a stop to it.
I would like to see such experiments carried out between say, Chinese/ Negro, Amerindian/Negro, even better, Arab/Negro, Indian Hindu/Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslim, Jew/Iranian, Jew/Palestinian subjects. Being Jewish myself, I believe it’s high time we forget about whites and start looking at non-white interracial interaction for a change thus helping to take this Marxist Liberal multicultural/ multiracial/ diversity quackery onto a new level.
I’m sure there must be thousands of folk out there who would resoundingly AND unequivocally agree with me on this proposal!!!
Let’s compel all those Marxist white-hating psycho analyzers to carry out their idea of meaningful research, funded by us the taxpayers, on the abovementioned projects at top speed.
What about it then!
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