The Culture Inside
Invisibilia
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The Importance of Body Language in Race Relations
Tony had actually found a way to look more closely at the concepts hidden inside the head, specifically the concepts around race. In one study, researcher jack ti vitio gave white doctors both the implicit bias test and then also questionaires about prejudice. And then he viteotaped those same doctor in actual situations where they interacted with black and white patients. The explicit attitudes were actually a pretty good predict of how verbally friendly a white person is towards a black person. But the i a t was way more predictive of the doctor's body language,. Those behaviours are much more difficult for a person to control consciously, like i look less at the person. I lean back. Basically, your body behaved
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