Do you think spending time in a virtual space as another race is enough to foster critical thinking about what it means to be a person of color? These researchers has some interesting research, would be interested to hear what the long term impact of these experiments are. huffingtonpost/2014/12/15/virtual-body-swapping-racism_n_6328654.html?ir=Black+Voices&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047 This isnt merely a question of changing mentality or perception. The experience of living in different skin triggers sensory signals in the brain that allow it to expand its understanding of what a body can look like. This can cause people to change their attitudes about others, wrote the studys co-researcher, Professor Mel Slater, a part-time professor of virtual environments at the University College London and research professor at the University of Barcelona.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:55:24 +0000
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