Rasismin parantaminen aisti-illuusiolla

[Miniluv]

Just imagine if there was a cure for racism that could help people live together without prejudice and in harmony.

Researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Barcelona think they've come pretty close.

Their new study shows that by using illusion techniques, it is surprisingly easy to trick people into thinking they have a body part with a different skin colour than their own, or even a different body.

Manos Tsakiris, psychology professor at Royal Holloway thinks research also proves that inducing the illusion of so-called 'body swapping' reduces racial bias.

They tested the participants' implicit prejudices before and after inducing the body swap illusion.

"We want to see people's reaction when they see a body of a different skin colour. That gives us a good way of measuring their implicit racial bias. So we can measure how biased people are for or against black people, for example. The next step will be to induce the illusion that they have a different body, of a different skin colour, for example, so white participants starting believing they have a black skin colour and measure again at the end of the experiment whether this experience changes their implicit racial bias."

http://www.euronews.com/2015/02/19/could-virtual-body-swapping-reduce-racism/

Inari Sakki, hox!

Apurahat sähköshokkeija hyödyntävässä tutkimushaarassa saattaisivat olla vielä jaossa...

[Jari Leino]

Mä haluaisin ainakin sellaisen virtuaalibodyn mikä olis laiha.

Sitten mä kiertäisin huutamassa kaikille että vitunläski vitunläski vitunläski.

[Leso]

Mulla valkoisena naisena alkaa olla semmoinen olo kuin olisin laboratoriorotta.

Tähän ei tartteta yhtään Lontoon tai Barcelonan yliopistotutkijan luomaa illuusiota.