Ryan Westhoff

Want to Hire Veterans? Look Past Your Biases, Misconceptions (2016)

November 7, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article looks at how employing veterans can be beneficial for an organization. It also goes over how to remove biases or misconceptions that someone may have about hiring veterans.

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Gurchiek, Kathy. “Want to Hire Veterans? Look Past Your Biases, Misconceptions.” Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). April 28, 2016. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/behavioral-competencies/global-and-cultural-effectiveness/pages/want-to-hire-veterans-look-past-your-biases-misconceptions.aspx

Time for New York City to stand against anti-veteran bias (2017)

November 7, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article looks at the experiences of veterans specifically in New York City. Kristen Rouse shares her own personal experience and goes over how implicit bias can affect US veterans.

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Rouse, Kristen L. “Time for New York City to stand against anti-veteran bias.” New York Post. April 25, 2017. http://nypost.com/2017/04/25/time-for-new-york-city-to-stand-against-anti-veteran-bias/

Unconscious Bias Towards People with Disabilities in the Workplace (2017)

November 7, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article goes over a few different statistics that show how people with disabilities are affected by unconscious bias. The article also outlines different tools and solutions that exist to help mitigate some of the biases.

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Maciujec, Shelly. “Unconscious Bias Towards People with Disabilities in the Workplace.” Ability Magizene. 2017. https://abilitymagazine.com/unconscious-bias-pwds-workplace/

Do Contact and Empathy Mitigate Bias Against Gay and Lesbian People Amon Heterosexual First-Year Medical Students? (2015)

October 24, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

Since lesbian and gay individuals face discrimination from health care providers, they asked for research on providers’ attitudes. Medical school is viewed as a critical juncture for improving future providers’ treatment of sexual minorities; therefore, this study examines implicit and explicit bias against lesbian women and gay men among first-year medical students, focusing on two predictors of such bias, contact and empathy.

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Citation (Chicago):

Burke, Sara E., MPhil, Diana J. Burgess, PhD, John F. Dovidio, PhD, Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, David B. Nelson, PhD, Sylvia P. Perry, PhD, Sean M. Phelan, PhD, Julia M. Przedworski, MPH, Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH, Mark W. Yeazel, MD, MPH. “Do Contact and Empathy Mitigate Bias Against Gay and Lesbian People Amon Heterosexual First-Year Medical Students? A Report from the Medical Student CHANGE Study.” Academic Medicine, Vol. 90, No. 5. May 2015.

LGBT Discrimination In Health Care: Heterosexual Providers Found To Hold Bias On Sexual Orientation (2015)

October 24, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article uses some of the findings in the previously cited article on health care providers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward lesbian women and gay men. It discusses the need to better understand instances of discrimination within healthcare organization to mitigate implicit biases.

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Citation (Chicago):

Magaldi, Kristin. “LGBT Discrimination In Health Care: Heterosexual Providers Found To Hold Bias On Sexual Orientation.” Medical Daily. July 16, 2015. http://www.medicaldaily.com/lgbt-discrimination-health-care-heterosexual-providers-found-hold-bias-sexual-343436

Health Care Providers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men (2015)

October 24, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

In this study, providers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward lesbian and gay people by gender, sexual identity, and race/ethnicity were examined. The Implicit Association Test was used to review attitudes of medical doctors, nurses, mental health providers, and other treatment providers, as well as non-providers toward heterosexual people versus lesbian and gay people.

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Citation (Chicago):

Sabin, Janice A., Brian A. Nosek, Rachel G. Riskind. “Health Care Providers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men.” American Journal of Public Health 105, no. 9. September 1, 2015.

Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not (2017)

October 23, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article examines the difficulties that are involved in scientifically measuring someone’s implicit bias. It looks at the Implicit Association Test in particular and shares some difficult aspects of the test in terms of “solving” implicit bias issues.

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Citation (Chicago):

Bartlett, Tom. “Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 5, 2017. http://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Implicit/238807

A Gender Bias Habit-Breaking Intervention Led to Increased Hiring of Female Faculty in STEMM Departments (2017)

October 23, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This study looks at how a gender bias intervention led to an increase of gender bias awareness and self-efficacy to promote gender equity in six different STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathmatics, Medicine) departments at the University of Wisonsin – Madison. The intervention was shown to have undeniable and practical significance on the advancement of women in science.

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Citation (Chicago):

Devine, Patricia G., Patrick S. Forscher, William T. L. Cox, Anna Kaatz, Jennifer Sheridan, Molly Carnes. “A Gender Bias Habit-Breaking Intervention Led to Increased Hiring of Female Faculty in STEMM Departments.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. August 17, 2017.

Long-term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention (2012)

October 23, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This 12-week study examines how to create a habit-breaking intervention in order to reduce people’s long-term implicit racial bias. The intervention led to dramatic reductions in implicit race bias and led to participants having a greater concern about discrimination and awareness over their own biases.

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Citation (Chicago):

Devine, Patricia G, Patrick S. Forscher, Anthony J. Austin, William T. L. Cox. “Long-term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention.” J Exp Soc Psychol. November 2012.

How Mindfulness Can Help Dislodge Unconscious Racial Biases (2014)

October 23, 2017 by Ryan Westhoff Leave a Comment

This article shares some research findings on how white people have a quicker response time for positive words associated with white faces than positive words associated with black faces, as well as a quicker response time for negative words when paired with black faces then white faces, and stronger associations between young and good, as well as old and bad. Practicing mindfulness might impact racial biases, according to this study.

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Citation (Chicago):

Gregoire, Carolyn. “How Mindfulness Can Help Dislodge Unconscious Racial Biases.” The Huffington Post. Dec 09, 2014. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/09/mindfulness-racism_n_6288040.html