Does our knowledge of a person change the way that we see them? Chris' research says yes! Chris studies the intersection of sexual orientation and perceived racial appearance, focusing on how learning a person is gay affects how they are viewed.
Suggested Reading:
Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein briefly describing about how we study race as a social construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwieME2tis
Article showing that perceiving a person's status can bias they way you perceive that person's race: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025107&type=printable
Chris' research on how people discriminate against men at the intersections of race and sexual orientation: https://www.academia.edu/34859780/Race_Crime_Congruency_Effects_Revisited_Do_We_Take_Defendants_Sexual_Orientation_Into_Account
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Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing
