When people are exposed to information that leads them to overestimate the actual amount of genetic difference between racial groups, it can augment their racial biases. However …
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors …
BM Donovan, M Weindling, B Salazar… - Journal of Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, it has been argued that improving students' genomics literacy could prevent students from developing erroneous beliefs about social identity, such as the belief that …
BM Donovan - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
For over a century, genetic arguments for the existence of racial inequality have been used to oppose policies that promote social equality. And, over that same time period, American …
Could the explosion of genetic research in recent decades affect our conceptions of race? In Backdoor to Eugenics, Duster argues that reports of specific racial differences in genetic …
CM Condit - Sociology Compass, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For over two decades, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have attended warily and thoughtfully to the growing influence of biological and especially genetics‐based …
A Hochman - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As belief in the reality of race as a biological category among US anthropologists has fallen, belief in the reality of race as a social category has risen in its place. The view that race …
Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic essences which cause them to differ physically, cognitively, or behaviorally. Apparently, no …
CM Condit - Hastings Center Report, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the last third of the twentieth century, humanists and social scientists argued that attention to genetics would heighten already‐existing genetic determinism, which in turn would …