PRIMITIVE MENTALITY AND THE RACIAL UNCONSCIOUS

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century

Priming unconscious racial stereotypes about adolescent offenders.

Two studies examined unconscious racial stereotypes of decision makers in the juvenile justice system. Police officers (Experiment 1) and juvenile probation officers (Experiment 2) were subliminally exposed to words related to the category Black or to words neutral with respect to race. In a presumably unrelated task, officers read 2 vignettes about a hypothetical adolescent who allegedly commi...

Unconscious biases: racial microaggressions in American Indian health care.

PURPOSE This article reports on the prevalence and correlates of microaggressive experiences in health care settings reported by American Indian (AI) adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS This community-based participatory research project includes two AI reservation communities. Data were collected via in-person article-and-pencil survey interviews with 218 AI adults diagnosed...

Mentality and the Criminal Law

This book aims at presenting in a concise manner the salient points connected with the law in this country regarding the commission of crimes by mentally disordered persons, so that students and practitioners of law may obtain useful information thereon with an economy of time. A preliminary chapter discusses briefly the meaning of the words " disease " and " mind.' There follow short chapters ...

Avoiding the 'dataset mentality'.

The Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) has long held a view that the 'dataset mentality' apparent in some parts of the National Health Service (NHS) represents a barrier to the proper use of information systems directly to support clinicians and other frontline staff at the point of care. 1–3 However, the Group has been remiss in failing to explain properly why we take this position a...