Tracking Subtle Stereotypes of Children with Trisomy 21: From Facial-Feature-Based to Implicit Stereotyping

Background: Stigmatization is one of the greatest obstacles to the successful integration of people with Trisomy 21 (T21 or Down syndrome), the most frequent genetic disorder associated with intellectual disability. Research on attitudes and stereotypes toward these people still focuses on explicit measures subjected to social-desirability biases, and neglects how variability in facial stigmata influences attitudes and stereotyping. Methodology/Principal Findings: The participants were 165 adults including 55 young adult students, 55 non-student adults, and 55 professional caregivers working with intellectually disabled persons. They were faced with implicit association tests (IAT), a well-known technique whereby response latency is used to capture the relative strength with which some groups of people—here photographed faces of typically developing children and children with T21—are automatically (without conscious awareness) associated with positive versus negative attributes in memory. Each participant also rated the same photographed faces (consciously accessible evaluations). We provide the first evidence that the positive bias typically found in explicit judgments of children with T21 is smaller for those whose facial features are highly characteristic of this disorder, compared to their counterparts with less distinctive features and to typically developing children. We also show that this bias can coexist with negative evaluations at the implicit level (with large effect sizes), even among professional caregivers

Golpe en Brasil : genealogía de una farsa

Golpe en Brasil reúne textos escritos entre abril y junio de 2016, período en el que se dio inicio al proceso de destitución de la presidenta Dilma Rousseff. Los autores aquí presentados nos ayudan a entender cómo se ha gestado y qué perspectivas se abren en el complejo proceso de desestabilización del orden democrático que vive actualmente Brasil. Este libro quiere contribuir a entender qué ha pasado en Brasil para que podamos luchar y organizarnos mejor para garantizar el legítimo regreso de Dilma Rousseff a la presidencia de la república. También, para que la izquierda pueda enfrentar los inmensos desafíos que esta experiencia truculenta nos deja como lección