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BIRACIAL AMERICANS FACE UNIQUE STEREOTYPES, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY
The growing number of biracial Americans could, in theory, lead to a less prejudiced society. But new research suggests that these Americans aren't so much shattering stereotypes as finding themselves pigeonholed with new ones. "A lot of stereotypes of black-white biracial people were completely different from the ones people have about white people and black people," reports Northwestern University psychologist Sylvia Perry, who authored the study with fellow researchers Allison Skinner and Sarah Gaither. "This suggests that people might actually think of biracial people as their own racial group, rather than just a combination of their parents' racial groups."
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Grad Students & Early Career Scientists: Apply for NAS Science Policy Fellowship by Sept. 6
If you’re a graduate student or early-career researcher, and you’re interested in learning about science policy in Washington, DC, apply for the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program, offered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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More Common Ground Than Conflict in Video Game Data
Differing conclusions on the link between video games and aggression may come down to how research teams interpret and report their statistical analyses, rather than the underlying data.
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Study Finds No Evidence That More Violent, Difficult Video Games Spur Aggression
Some of the most popular video games feature violence of some kind — psychological scientists are investigating whether violent in-game behavior actually impacts real-world behavior.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring: rewards, attention, and working memory; testosterone and emotional control in police recruits; and gene-environment interactions linking early adversity and romantic relationships.
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‘Emotion detection’ AI is a $20 billion industry. New research says it can’t do what it claims.
In just a handful of years, the business of emotion detection — using artificial intelligence to identify how people are feeling — has moved beyond the stuff of science fiction to a $20 billion industry. Companies like IBM and Microsoft tout software that can analyze facial expressions and match them to certain emotions, a would-be superpower that companies could use to tell how customers respond to a new product or how a job candidate is feeling during an interview. But a far-reaching review of emotion research finds that the science underlying these technologies is deeply flawed. The problem? You can’t reliably judge how someone feels from what their face is doing.
