{"id":40674,"date":"2012-04-23T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40674"},"modified":"2017-09-17T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:25:11","slug":"unconscious-bias-against-short-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/23\/unconscious-bias-against-short-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconscious Bias Against Short Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/11.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40688\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/11.png 538w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/11-500x104.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This four-minute video reports research showing that, even if we&#8217;re not aware of it, most of us have unconscious biases against short men. \u00a0(It&#8217;s also a great description of Implicit Association Tests.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SRlWvzUznlw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>You, too, can take any multitude of implicit association tests. \u00a0Simply go to <a href=\"https:\/\/implicit.harvard.edu\/implicit\/\">Harvard&#8217;s Project Implicit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocialcomplex.tumblr.com\/post\/7407587027\/s-m-short-and-male-implicit-association-test\">The Social Complex, a heightism blog<\/a>.\u00a0See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/03\/heightism-is-a-social-construct-based-in-gender-norms\/\">heightism as a gendered prejudice<\/a> and discussing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40658\">heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This four-minute video reports research showing that, even if we&#8217;re not aware of it, most of us have unconscious biases against short men. \u00a0(It&#8217;s also a great description of Implicit Association Tests.) [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SRlWvzUznlw[\/youtube] You, too, can take any multitude of implicit association tests. \u00a0Simply go to Harvard&#8217;s Project Implicit. Borrowed from The Social Complex, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,55,2103,2098,12467,283],"class_list":["post-40674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-heightheightism","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40674"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71501,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674\/revisions\/71501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}