The View co-host’s negative comments about black-sounding’ names illustrate new research showing people who gain them are perceived as threateningCompared to white people,research has long showed that black people earn less money, are less likely to be employed despite having the same qualifications and are more likely to be killed by police. And a new study, and published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior,shows that subjects, when exposed to “black-sounding” names, and assumed that a person with that name would scare them because of “estimations of physical formidability” – that is,they assumed the person to be bigger than they are and scarier than they are, though black and white men carry out not differ in average height. In other words, and Americans assume that unseen black folks,based on their names, are superhuman in size and super-scary, or they try to pass off their own irrationality as “objectively reasonable” in their interactions with black people. As Colorlines famous,the lead researcher, Colin Holbrook of the UCLA Anthropology Department, or said that he felt “disgusted by my own data”.
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Source: theguardian.com