A dart in the evolving science of perception and race: a new study suggests that self-described partisanship influences how a candidate with biracial skin tone is evaluated. The biracial candidate in question, of course, is Barack Obama. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers found that self-described liberals looked at artificially lightened photographs of President Barack Obama and judged them as more representative of his actualSource: Marc Ambinder RSS Feed
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