New University Study Claims Americans Subconsciously Associate Black People With Apes
Posted on 25. Feb, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
A study by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley says that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers.
Co-author Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford associate professor of psychology, said she was shocked by the results, particularly since they involved subjects born after Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. “This was actually some of the most depressing work I have done,” she said. “This shook me up. You have suspicions when you do the work—intuitions—you have a hunch. But it was hard to prepare for how strong [the black-ape association] was—how we were able to pick it up every time.”
The research took place over six years at Stanford and Penn State under Eberhardt’s supervision. It involved mostly white male undergraduates. In a series of studies that subliminally flashed black or white male faces on a screen for a fraction of a second to “prime” the students, researchers found subjects could identify blurry ape drawings much faster after they were primed with black faces than with white faces.
The researchers consistently discovered a black-ape association even if the young adults said they knew nothing about its historical connotations. The connection was made only with African American faces; the paper’s third study failed to find an ape association with other non-white groups, such as Asians. Despite such race-specific findings, the researchers stressed that dehumanization and animal imagery have been used for centuries to justify violence against many oppressed groups.
“Despite widespread opposition to racism, bias remains with us,” Eberhardt said. “African Americans are still dehumanized; we’re still associated with apes in this country. That association can lead people to endorse the beating of black suspects by police officers, and I think it has lots of other consequences that we have yet to uncover.”
Historical background
Scientific racism in the United States was graphically promoted in a mid-19th-century book by Josiah C. Nott and George Robins Gliddon titled Types of Mankind, which used misleading illustrations to suggest that “Negroes” ranked between “Greeks” and chimpanzees. “When we have a history like that in this country, I don’t know how much of that goes away completely, especially to the extent that we are still dealing with severe racial inequality, which fuels and maintains those associations in ways that people are unaware,” Eberhardt said.
Although such grotesque characterizations of African Americans have largely disappeared from mainstream U.S. society, Eberhardt noted that science education could be partly responsible for reinforcing the view that blacks are less evolved than whites. An iconic 1970 illustration, “March of Progress,” published in the Time-Life book Early Man, depicts evolution beginning with a chimpanzee and ending with a white man. “It’s a legacy of our past that the endpoint of evolution is a white man,” Eberhardt said. “I don’t think it’s intentional, but when people learn about human evolution, they walk away with a notion that people of African descent are closer to apes than people of European descent. When people think of a civilized person, a white man comes to mind.” MORE>>>>
No, I disagree. Mating with a jig is unacceptable under ANY circumstance.
Study shows that there’s more White Mass Murders, So it seems to me that the whites
are niggers, if you know what a real nigga
is.
I find it unfair to the ape’s to be compared to niggers.
1. What is it with niggers and trying to make comparisons between apples and engine crates whenever a white person points out the obvious?
2. Niggers kill more people around the world in a day or a week than all white serial killers that have ever existed EVER, and white people are so used to seeing this behavior that it doesn’t even shock or surprise us anymore….we just chalk it up to “typical nigger behavior”…as it always is.
3. Is it me or does it seem that whenever a white person puts forth a valid argument or states something that is obvious to anyone that’s spent more than a week around niggers, a nigger just HAS to say something stupid and generally tries to make a point involving white people committing more of this or that…but whatever the point they try to make, they always seem to forget about the RATIOS involved.
You would think that it would be obvious to niggers that white people aren’t the problem when 13% of the population constitutes over 50% of the prison/jail population due to the fact that niggers generally act like savages animals instead of civilized humans….not racism and the “dey all be’s innocent an shit” crap we hear everyday.
Honestly, I really don’t like comparing them to animals, considering I’ve seen domesticated house pets with more class and sense than most niggers I’ve ever had the mis-fortune of living or working around.
I mean, come on, niggers can’t even act right in a movie theater, hospital, or a graduation, so how the hell are we to be expected to think that they’re going to act right under any other circumstances?
Wow, the next thing you’re going to tell me is that vegatbles are good for me, grass is green and the sky is blue. Lets do a study on it. Quote :“I don’t think it’s intentional, but when people learn about human evolution, they walk away with a notion that people of African descent are closer to apes than people of European descent. When people think of a civilized person, a white man comes to mind.” Show me the civilization that blacks created, and I’ll change my mind.
Please do not debase my ape family by comparing us to niggers.
Reguardless of white and black mixing.If a white woman is dumb enough to mix with a monkey nigger,she deserves to be thrown into the jungle with all the other primitive animals,and the hideous child too.It is a uncivilized act to mix with animals.Remember now, i’m not racist.I’m just a normal white civilized human being.
Yes, I think black are the most hideous ,incompetant,creature on this planet.
JPSartre:”L`enfer c`est l`autre”.
the bottom line is that the whie man discovered the black man an not vice versa. if you look at rome some 2500 years ago it was a large city run by a government with laws and not to mention structural engineering that blacks couldn’t even dream about. the europeans who settled in sub saharan africa 450 years ago discovered the black man wearing a loin cloth, living in a grass hut, and talking in click. black people are always complaining about how they were not properly educated, thus leaving them in the situation that they are in, but it was the white man who discovered electricity, invented the aeroplane etc. so what gives them the right to what is ours. they should just be happy that they have a minimum wage job and a room to live in because if it wasn’t for the white man they would probably be running from lions at this very moment. infact if the white man left the blacks in africa they would still be rubbing sticks together to make a fire an we will be sending people to mars sometime in the near future, not to mention that we have discovered most of the known universe. PEACE
White Man!
We regret to inform you that your kind has been slated for termination. We, the various Third World majorities of Africa, Asia, India, South America, and the Middle East assert that your long history of success at building civilizations, developing new technologies, creating stable governments, fostering good will, feeding much of the world, and increasing peace and prosperity even amongst the riotous hordes of our own homelands, has made us envious and resentful of you. We, who make up 92% of the global population, feel that we can no longer accept the great disparity between your success and our abject failure. The solution to this inequality should be obvious to all concerned.
What a load of crap, first they should have tested black people also, to see if blacks associate themselves with apes and monkeys. If they was a substantial difference between the races then you can blame racism.
I found it funny when she claimed she was “shocked” at these results and this was the most depressing research she has ever done (para-phrasing). I think this study validates what we’ve always known, blacks are viewed as apes and not unlike a civilized culture whites tolerate the ill behavior of animals.