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I came across an online psychological exam you can take that determines if you have implicit prejudices or not. Implicit prejudices are prejudiced feelings you have towards a specific group of people that you may not be aware you have, or act consciously as though you do. Take one of the tests and see how you do- the results may be surprising.

One important thing to keep in mind before you take it though, is that it's not abnormal for people to have implicit prejudices, especially those that are culturally primed within us. I saw an episode of Dateline where they gave this test to Civil Rights lawyers. The woman I saw tested had been working as a Civil Righs lawyer for over 15 years. She had an implicit prejudice against black people. This just goes to show that just because someone has an implicit prejudice, this doens't mean that they're going to act on their subconscious feelings. It's the EXPLICIT prejudices that we should be truly concerned about. Besides, once you know you have an implicit prejudice, you can start becoming aware of it and working on sorting through whatever issues you may have. Again, I should stress that implicit prejudices are often brought out in people through culture. That is, we're often told through the media and other outlets about what certain groups of people are "often" like. This is also known as stereotying.

Another critique that some people have is that the test primes people to respond in a certain way. Harvard has extensively tested this and apparently it has no affect on the test results.

Anyway, take the test, and take it with a grain of salt. If nothing else, it's interesting to see how some psychological tests are created to see what our sunconscious thoughts and feelings are.

Here it is: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Click on "demonstration" then follow the rest of instructions and choose which test you want to take.

it would be interesting to see how some of you do.

Good luck!  

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