Psychologist have researched why there is racial bias in the world, and have come up with two aspects of how racial bias comes along. There are cognitive factors, and social factors that lead to someone having a racial bias. One cognitive factor of why racial bias is formed is availability heuristic. This means a person evaluates the probability of events by what is available to them. Studies have shown that people can assess availability quickly and accurately. (Availability) So give the public access to crime, the media, then what they see will become what they predict. The media shows more crimes black committe than whites, and if a white person commits a crime they had a “mental illness” and black just committed a “truly horrible crime.”
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So trying to convince a group and the better part of society would be like a death sentence. In addition standing up for a their beliefs will cause confrontations and, according to Psychology Today, humans avoid confrontations because they are afraid that they can’t handle the situation. The next social factor is the idea of ingroup bias. Ingroup bias is the tendency to favor one’s own group. Racial bias occurs because people only trust the people in their own group, i.e their racial group. So whites trust white, blacks trust blacks, asians trust asians, and so on and so forth. While some people may believe that they aren’t prone to favoring a certain race, the Implicit Association Test says otherwise. The Implicit Test says that 46% of the thousand of people that have taken the test have has a strong preference for European versus African American people, and 13% have a moderate preference. Only 12% of the the thousands of test came out with no preference. That isn’t many people that aren’t bias toward the color of people’s skin. Something else interesting that can be learned from the Implicit Association Test is that only 10% have a high or moderate preference for African Americans, comparing that to the 46% earlier, that is a lot more people having a preference for
So trying to convince a group and the better part of society would be like a death sentence. In addition standing up for a their beliefs will cause confrontations and, according to Psychology Today, humans avoid confrontations because they are afraid that they can’t handle the situation. The next social factor is the idea of ingroup bias. Ingroup bias is the tendency to favor one’s own group. Racial bias occurs because people only trust the people in their own group, i.e their racial group. So whites trust white, blacks trust blacks, asians trust asians, and so on and so forth. While some people may believe that they aren’t prone to favoring a certain race, the Implicit Association Test says otherwise. The Implicit Test says that 46% of the thousand of people that have taken the test have has a strong preference for European versus African American people, and 13% have a moderate preference. Only 12% of the the thousands of test came out with no preference. That isn’t many people that aren’t bias toward the color of people’s skin. Something else interesting that can be learned from the Implicit Association Test is that only 10% have a high or moderate preference for African Americans, comparing that to the 46% earlier, that is a lot more people having a preference for