A study conducted at Princeton by Mary Wheeler and Susan Fiske (2005)“Controlling Racial Prejudice: Social-Cognitive Goals Affect Amygdala and Stereotype Activation,” Psychological Science 16:1 (January, 2005). showed that rehumanization could be achieved by blocking brain activation that is often associated with the appearance of a person perceived to be from another race . Wheeler and Fiske were able to help subjects unconsciously suppress the activation of “fight or flight” responses arising from deep in the limbic system , and rehumanization was achieved when he or she was seen not as a category, racial or other, but as an individual: the researchers “primed” the subjects by asking them to guess whether the person whose face they were about to see liked coffee or tea, etc.
A study conducted at Princeton by Mary Wheeler and Susan Fiske (2005)“Controlling Racial Prejudice: Social-Cognitive Goals Affect Amygdala and Stereotype Activation,” Psychological Science 16:1 (January, 2005). showed that rehumanization could be achieved by blocking brain activation that is often appropriated with the appearance of an individual . Wheeler and Fiske were able to help subjects unconsciously suppress the activation of “fight or flight” , and rehumanization was achieved when he or she was seen not as a category, racial or other, but as an individual: the researchers “primed” the subjects by asking them to guess whether the person whose face they were about to see liked coffee or tea, etc.
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responses arising from deep in the limbic system