From: The Atlantic
How Cursors Betray Our Gut Feelings
June 19, 2014
The Atlantic:
Quick! Match the person with the noun:
Man Kitchen
Woman Test Tube
Mother Programming
Husband Liberal Arts
That’s not a real psychology test, of course, but it’s a play on what’s called an “implicit association test,” a type of activity that psychologists ask study participants to perform in order to determine whether they might secretly harbor, in this case, sexist ideas.
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