{"id":42416,"date":"2015-08-26T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42416"},"modified":"2015-08-26T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:49:07","slug":"study-investigates-whether-blind-people-characterize-others-by-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42416","title":{"rendered":"Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-08\/asa-siw081815.php\" target=\"_blank\">Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News<\/a><br \/>\nAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science<br \/>\n2015-08-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Sociological Association<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Most people who meet a new acquaintance, or merely pass someone on the street, need only a glance to categorize that person as a particular race. But, sociologist <a href=\"mailto:asiaf@udel.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Friedman<\/a> wondered, what can we learn about that automatic visual processing from people who are unable to see?<\/p>\n<p>Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, set out to explore that question by interviewing 25 individuals who are blind. She will present her findings in a study at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The visual process of assigning race is instantaneous, and it&#8217;s an example of automatic thinking &#8212; it happens below the level of awareness,&#8221; Friedman said. &#8220;With blind people, the process is much slower as they piece together information about a person over time. Their thinking is deliberative rather than automatic, and even after they&#8217;ve categorized someone by race, they&#8217;re often not certain that they&#8217;re correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she said, blind people categorize many fewer people by race than do sighted people, who assign a race to virtually everyone they see. For those who are blind, the slower process of assigning race generally takes place only when they have extensive interactions with a person, not with passersby or during casual encounters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-08\/asa-siw081815.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015-08-25 American Sociological Association CHICAGO &#8212; Most people who meet a new acquaintance, or merely pass someone on the street, need only a glance to categorize that person as a particular race. 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