Role playing in the RPG..

by Oz Mills, Monday, June 17, 2013, 12:15 (3974 days ago) @ Cody Miller

1. "As a result, reductive racial stereotypes and representations proliferate while productive and politically disruptive racial differences are ejected or neutralized through fantastical proxies."

2. "participants who adopted the perspective of a Black target in an initial context subsequently exhibited more positive automatic interracial evaluations, with changes in automatic evaluations mediating the effect of perspective taking on more deliberate interracial evaluations"

These abstracts are stating that:

• people can and will learn "normality" via electronic interaction. In the example used, this is to a negative result.
  
• People can attain social skills and understanding of other non-user groups, in this case "Black" people. In the example used, this is to a positive result.

These strongly relate to the pedagogy of empathy.

Did you even read them?