Prejudice Can Actually Change How You View Faces

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The way we see faces can sometimes be clouded by deeply ingrained prejudices. Ollyy/Shutterstock

What you see when you look at someone may not always be an entirely fair representation of that person, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience into how our deepest prejudices – including those that we wish we didn’t have – can cloud the way that our brains process visual stimuli when observing faces.