-YALE UNIVERSITY: Roots of unconscious prejudice affect 90 to 95 percent of people.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 September 1998-YALE UNIVERSITY: Roots of unconscious prejudice affect 90 to 95 percent of people (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:290998 * Psychologists from Yale and University of Washington Show New Haven, Conn. -- The pervasiveness of prejudice, which affects 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle news conference at the University of Washington by psychologists who have developed a new tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice.

At the news conference, the researchers also activated a Web site -- www.yale.edu/implicit/ or depts.washington.edu/iat/ -- that will enable people all over the world to take a series of quick tests that measure their unconscious levels of race and age prejudice, gender...