racial bias

Excerpts from The Washington Post article titled, "The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain" by Sandhya Somashekhar "African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research." "Researchers at the...

There was a study where researchers showed video clips to a group of participants. One is a needle touching someone's skin. The other is an eraser touching someone's skin. When participants saw the white people receiving a painful stimuli, they responded much more dramatically than they did for...