{"id":700,"date":"2023-10-25T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=700"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:22:43","slug":"summary-of-research-10-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/10\/25\/summary-of-research-10-25\/","title":{"rendered":"summary of research 10\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, I centered my research on investigating the scientific basis behind people&#8217;s innate distaste for tattoos, because this aspect of my paper really interests me. Firstly, there are not many studies published on this topic; I found a great paper called \u201cEvidence of negative implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tattoo near the face\u201d; this paper contends that they are the first paper to be published on this issue. The study had some really interesting findings that I definitely want to pursue and look into more; additionally, the resources that were cited to develop their argument for the validity of their experiment are valuable for me to pursue (which I\u2019ve already begun).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In sum, this study found:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Observers hold negative associations towards individuals who exhibit a tattoo near their face&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The expression of the negative implicit attitudes was not caused by the potential interruption of visual processing that an asymmetrical tattoo could create (this was in response to the possibility that individuals may be put off by facial tattoos due to the asymmetry of the design, which could subconsciously lead to an implicit evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>positively valuended tattoos increased but not eliminated the expression of implicit prejudice toward the target with tattoos (tribal image vs heart image)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Individuals with high internal motivation (\u201ci am personally motivated by my beliefs to be non prejudiced toward people with tattoos\u201d and low external motivation \u201cif i acted prejudiced toward people with tattoos, I would be concerned that others would be angry with me\u201d to respond without prejudice expressed lower implicit attitudes = these findings shed light on which personality factors could contribute to the extent to which an individual dislikes tattoos&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These findings are meaningful to my research and this text has provided me with some background context on what the psychology field is saying about the implicit attitudes associated with tattoos, specifically face tattoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I centered my research on investigating the scientific basis behind people&#8217;s innate distaste for tattoos, because this aspect of my paper really interests me. Firstly, there are not many studies published on this topic; I found a great paper called \u201cEvidence of negative implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tattoo near the face\u201d; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}