PsyPostGoogle searches for racial slurs are higher in areas where people are worried about disease https://www.psypost.org/google-searches-for-racial-slurs-are-higher-in-areas-where-people-are-worried-about-disease/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RacialBias #AntiBlackBias #PathogenStress #SocialPsychology #GoogleSearches
Google searches for racial slurs are higher in areas where people are worried about disease
A new study has found that areas with higher pathogen stress showed increased anti-Black bias, reflected in Google searches for racial slurs, but disease avoidance motivations only partly explained this link.