{"id":2729,"date":"2004-02-10T19:01:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:55:25","slug":"prejudice-from-thin-air-eureka-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/prejudice-from-thin-air-eureka-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Prejudice from thin air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Wonder why people in all the these internet clips are such bigots? Anger brings it out of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"user-select: auto;\">\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">BOSTON, Mass. \u2013 You may be more prejudiced than you think, especially if you&#8217;re angry and approached by someone of a different race, religion or creed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">A study slated for publication in the Spring 2004 edition of Psychological Science (the flagship Journal of the American Psychological Society) by psychology professors David DeSteno and Nilanjana Dasgupta from Northeastern University and UMass Amherst respectively, reveals that the experience of anger causes automatic, immediate prejudices against those who are not a part of one&#8217;s social group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">&#8230;DeSteno explains the study by use of an example. <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">&#8220;Much as the experience of fear leads individuals to adaptive behaviors to avoid dangers (e.g., quickly recoiling from a snake in one&#8217;s path), the experience of anger, due its association with preparation for conflict, automatically shifts individuals&#8217; rapid appraisals of social groups outside of their awareness or control,&#8221; he says. &#8220;When conflict is likely, different equals bad, and the brain prepares to shape our behavior accordingly.&#8221;<\/strong> [<a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2004-02\/nu-pft020904.php\">Eureka Alert<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder why people in all the these internet clips are such bigots? Anger brings it out of people.\u00a0 BOSTON, Mass. \u2013 You may be more prejudiced than you think, especially if you&#8217;re angry and approached by someone of a different race, religion or creed. A study slated for publication in the Spring 2004 edition of &#8230; <a title=\"Prejudice from thin air\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/prejudice-from-thin-air-eureka-alert\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prejudice from thin air\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-psychology","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16868,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/construal-level-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":2729,"position":0},"title":"Construal Level Theory","author":"Limbic","date":"November 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There was a lot of soul searching and anger around the time of the Paris massacre in November 2015 because the Paris massacre got so much attention whereas the Beirut bombing the previous day did not. 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