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Send to email | Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds] in Virtual Worlds Culture Psychology Racism | By Stuart Houghton el 11-Sep-2008 | Anyone thinking that virtual worlds are edging towards some kind of utopia, please revise your hopes downwards. A study into the social psychology of virtual environments, by Northwestern University, indicates that people respond to the same social cues about race in virtual worlds as they do in real life. In an experiment carried out in There.com users were approached by a researcher wearing either a light-skinned or dark-skinned avatar and asked a series of questions.. The study found that when asked a fairly demanding question, followed by a less demanding request (a so-called 'Door in the face technique', dark skinned avatars received a significantly lower rate of positive responses. Same old, same old. Researchers find racial bias in virtual worlds [ITNews.com.au] (image source: http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/)

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| Future Trends for Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds] | | The Virtual Worlds Expo took place last week in Los Angeles, and there's been bits and pieces of news from the event floating around — the wrap ups of roundtables and panels are the most interesting. Over at Free To Play, they have put together five big trends in virt [..] Read complete article | ![Subscribe to Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](http://www.weeklybits.com/images/yaaqui3.gif) | Published 13-Sep-2008 by Maggie Greene in Virtual worlds free to play Industry Kids Marketing Read 30 times. More hits in ![Images about Future Trends for Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](./images/photo.gif) |
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| Virtual Worlds Getting Ready To Explode [Virtual Worlds] | | Sure, laugh when I tell you that I spent the better part of last night DJing a virtual wedding in Second Life, but the next wedding I DJ could be yours. In a report released today titled ""Market Forecasts for Virtual World Experiences", Strategy Analytics p [..] Read complete article | ![Subscribe to Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](http://www.weeklybits.com/images/yaaqui3.gif) | Published 04-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in AnalysisforecastsNewsPCSecond Life Read 25 times. More hits in ![Images about Virtual Worlds Getting Ready To Explode [Virtual Worlds]](./images/photo.gif) |
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While Second Life is still a media darling (though I think the general press is down in number of articles touting this new! and amazing! and wonderful! virtual space since this time last year), Bruce Damer has an interesting piece up over at Terra Nova: are virtual worlds faci [..] Read complete article | ![Subscribe to Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](http://www.weeklybits.com/images/yaaqui3.gif) | Published 07-Jun-2008 by Maggie Greene in General Read 31 times. More hits in ![Images about Are We Facing a Winter of Virtual Worlds? []](./images/photo.gif) |
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| Virtual Worlds for Fun and Research [Academia] | | We mentioned Arden, the university-design MMO, a few times; a working paper has just been released that looks at economic behavior in MMOs using the game. The interesting thing here isn't so much the fact that people replicate real-world behaviors online (in this case, they purchased less of a [..] Read complete article | ![Subscribe to Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](http://www.weeklybits.com/images/yaaqui3.gif) | Published 26-Jul-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia arden Mmo Mmorpg Research Science Virtual Worlds Read 23 times. More hits in ![Images about Virtual Worlds for Fun and Research [Academia]](./images/photo.gif) |
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| On the LOC Preserving Virtual Worlds Project [History Is Fun!] | | I've mentioned my love for the delightful How They Got Game, which catalogues some of the neat holdings of the Stanford Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection (among other things); now, they're getting some love from the Stanford alumni magazine, which highlights the Library of Congress ' [..] Read complete article | ![Subscribe to Study Finds Racial Bias Common In Virtual Worlds [Virtual Worlds]](http://www.weeklybits.com/images/yaaqui3.gif) | Published 22-Nov-2008 by Maggie Greene in History is fun! Archives Culture Library Of Congress Loc Preservation Stanford Read 13 times. More hits in ![Images about On the LOC Preserving Virtual Worlds Project [History Is Fun!]](./images/photo.gif) |
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