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To: Suma who wrote (27226)	1/8/2010 4:03:06 PM
From: koan	of 51692

I am sure that now that the right wing has this explanation they will realize the error of their ways-lol. Scientific American, Oct 2009, by Steve Mirsky -on "Birthers". "Deeply held beliefs make it easy to accept the absurd." "How could millions of people (58%) of Republicans, mostly concentrated in the south, either don't belive or are not sure Obama is a citizen-be persuaded that the president is foreign? A black president, causes great cognitive dissonance in some. But members of the "birther" movment have found a cleaver solution: Obama isn't really president! Because he really wasn't born in the US! A part of the answer may lie in what's called: "implicit social cognition", which involves the deep-rooted assumptions we all carry around and even act on without realizing it. Harvard university psychologist Mahzarin Banaji is a leader in implicit social cognition research. She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgements when shown a rapid fire succession of stimuli, such as photos of of faces. And the article goes on to explain some of her research.

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