We often hear the plea to treat people as unique and now a new study cautions us to look more for similarities as a way to avoid bias. What do you think?
According to Science Daily it seems that prejudice and bias problems wired into some brains more than in others. What do you think?
Participants brains were scanned as they thought about people either politically like or different from them. Researchers observed different areas light up in their brain in each case.
They found that perceptions about other races differed from views about one's own race, and the differences showed within brain activity. The study supports the idea that we tend to see certain groups as “other” in ways that cause us to miss their strengths and or see their weaknesses in ways we see a personal cultural groups?
See the details of this interesting work which can help us to reduce prejudice at work, by emphasizing people’s commonalities - rather than focusing on differences.
» Race and Ethnicity - Progress or Decline? from BrainBasedBusiness
Discrimination often comes from flawed notions of race and ethnicity … and it’s recently been discovered that biases tend to be hardwired into the human brain itself. Add to that the fact that race and ethnicity constantly evolve ...... [Read More]
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