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From Threat to Opportunity
Re-examining the relationship between violent and non-violent radicalisation
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Myths and Monsters
Three years after 7/7 the threat is still real and still misunderstood
Peter Harrington
10th July 2008
| by Peter Harrington
| Progress Online
Themes :
islamism
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The 'turban effect'
A recent experiment, soon to be published in the journal of experimental social psychology, offers provocative evidence that Islamophobia operates in the dark recesses of our unconscious. In the experiment, participants played a computer simulation and were asked to shoot individuals carrying weapons and to spare those unarmed. Participants were more likely to shoot unarmed individuals who were wearing turbans or hijabs. More interestingly, they were unaware and incredulous that they were doing so. The author of the experiment, Christian Unkelbach, a visiting scholar at Australia's University of New South Wales, has called this "the turban effect" and blames one-sided media reports.
Jonathan Birdwell
9th July 2008
| by Jonathan Birdwell
| Comment is free
Themes :
radicalisation
