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...... First, it is important to distinguish between two types of racismindividual racism, and institutional racism. Institutional racism is often much more complex, and requires a sociological as well as a psychological racism (Adams, 2007). It is very much tied to individual racism, but is a separate phenomenon strictly speaking. The research Moskowitz discusses in her article involves individual racism, and the way it formsor doesnt formin individual minds. Racism, many psychologists believe, is the result of repeated negative associations (Moskowitz, 2001). These negative associations most likely formed as an evolutionary bonuspeople who were more able to quickly notice things that might kill them were more likely to avoid or escape them, so the faster negative associations are formed the better survival skills the individual hasbut some people do not form negative associations readily, and these people exhibit almost no tendency towards racism or prejudice at all (Moskowtiz, 2001)
If it is true that some people do not form negative associations readily, it seems likely that there are also those who form them more rapidly than others, and these people would be more likely to be racist. Though prejudice seems to be a natural, hard-wired part of the human brain,

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