Fear of messing up may undermine interracial contact

by nk | April 3, 2008 at 01:09 am | 457 views | 2 comments

Jennifer A. Richeson Associate Professor of Psychology and African-American Studies

Now a provocative new study from Northwestern University suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction with blacks in the first place.

Flag this story

Upload

Make your good story a great story. Click here to add your photos & video to this story.

Crowd Power

Scan the web to add photos and videos to this story or add them from the NowPublic Archive.

Jarrett Martineau

at 01:17 on April 3rd, 2008

Hi nk, this is a provocative piece. I would be interested to hear your perspective on this story - why not add your own thoughts to the post?

at 01:42 on April 3rd, 2008

My thoughts on this is that "political correctness" just supresses problems. Call me racist if you want but I firmly believe that they way every animal, including humans are wired, we can't help recognizing someone who looks different as being someone who is not a member of our tribe. How you act on this ancient feeling determines whether you are more than an animal.