Examining Racial Profiling from a Cognitive Perspective

Are Smart People Less Racist? Cognitive Ability, Anti-Black Prejudice, and the Principle-Policy Paradox

It is commonly hypothesized that higher cognitive abilities promote racial tolerance and a sincere commitment to racial equality. An alternative theoretical framework contends that higher cognitive abilities enable members of a dominant racial group to articulate a more refined legitimizing ideology for racial inequality. According to this perspective, ideological refinement occurs in response ...

Racial differences in the influence of the APOE epsilon 4 allele on cognitive decline in a sample of community-dwelling older adults.

BACKGROUND Most, but not all, past studies have suggested that the APOE genotype is a risk factor for dementia in whites but not African Americans. This paper first describes explanations as to why some studies may have failed to detect the effect of APOE genotype in African American samples. Briefly, studies have been limited by various methodological problems including small sample sizes, dic...

Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias.

This article reviews research examining racial phenotypicality bias--within-category stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination based on race-related phenotypic characteristics of the face. A literature review of research examining skin tone bias, drawing largely from work examining perceptions of Blacks in the United States, reveals that individuals with features typical of members of their ra...

Examining the Order of Urban Blocks from the Perspective of Environmental Perception in Comparison between 2 Districts: Khaneh-Esfahan and Mardavij of Isfahan

Cognitive Activity Analysis of the Brain in Creative Design Thinking

The present study was aimed at analyzing cognitive activity of the brain during creative design thinking. This study was a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study was all students of Tabriz University in the period of 2016-17. At first, interested students were invited to participate in the research, and 30 of them were randomly selected and selected from delta, theta,...