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to hire the white American than the African American.
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Nineteen eighty-nine was a long time ago but the same results showed up in 1999.
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The same results also showed up about a year and a half ago.
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And again, this doesn't show that people are explicit terrible racists.
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It does show that people possess these stereotypes
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that make a difference in their real-world behavior.
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A way to put this all together is in Trish Devine's automaticity theory,
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which goes something like this. The idea is that everybody holds stereotypes.
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These are automatically activated when we come into contact with individuals.
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In order to not act in a stereotyped fashion,
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we have to consciously push them down, we have to consciously override them,
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and that's possible, but it takes work.