Race Reference library
Encyclopedia of Evolution
...perspectives Social psychologists working in Western societies have noted that race is one of a handful of personal characteristics, along with sex, age, and physical attractiveness, that people normally register automatically and involuntarily at the beginning of any interpersonal encounter. Racial categorization has consequences; it influences expectations that people have of one another, and how they interact. Experiments show that this is true even for individuals who claim that they are free of prejudice and do not to judge others on the basis of...
