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Animals that are all black or all white have reputations based on superstition − biases that have real effects

By Elizabeth Carlen, Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Tyus Williams, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
What may be scariest about a spooky black cat is the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and biases about animals based only on their color.The Conversation


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