Beyond Belief: The Table Top Illusion

Harvard Professor, Mahzarin Banaji, studies how our unconscious assessments reflect hidden attitudes about social group membership such as race, gender and class. Here she illustrates how stubborn our illusions are. This and other uncanny illusions also illustrate that reality is constructed in minds. To explore this further, with even more powerful optical illusions see http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/74 (you can also download this video there).

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• Beyond
• Belief
• tabletop
• optical
• illusion
• perception
• race
• gender
• racism
• prejudice
• social
• justice
• perspective

[brownsuga3908]

i would have loved to hear more of what she had to say

[yocom2]

It was a good talk, but way beyond the YouTube time limits. Go to the Beyond Belief web site and you will be able to see it there (do a Google search for the address).

[crash0510]

did it photoshop, works as advertised

[balkan2k]

@swyft187 No. You can print out the damn illusion and make a paper cut-out, verifying it yourself. A cool thing one can do is to try stuff like that out *before* posting skeptical comments ;-)

:D

[shunyotube]

But then it does on a similar video. Can't figure that out.

[shunyotube]

Doesn't work when I trace one myself and put it over the other.

[painstrulove]

Wow it's so weird that I found Banaji on youtube.

I am doing some research based on her findings with children and their implicit racial attitudes.

[srs132]

Red coloring fits not only on the projected screen, but also on the flat transparency sheet. It is not because of projector getting tilted, and it is not trickery!

[UProvokeMe]

It seems my posts to proof of this doesn't work when posted here. But it IS real. Just send me a message and I will prove it!

[anguirusreturns]

ignorance that still abounds in america

hm. perhaps it's racist that you mentioned this ignorance abounded america and made no mention of it happening everywhere else?