WE ARE... biased!? Penn State's Implicit Bias Resource Hub
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/
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/
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
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.
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
This article discusses how recent tragic deaths of unarmed Black males (i.e., Mike Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford and Tamir Rice) have initiated dialogue around race in America and how many people argue that none of these deaths were racially motivated. The writer argues that both sides are right.
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Citation (Chicago):
Bester, DeAngelo. “A More Progressive Approach: Recognizing the Role of Implicit Bias in Institutional Racism.” Responsive Philanthropy May 2015. https://www.ncrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/RP_Spring15_Bester.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWa09tUzqf4
“This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary American Denial looks at the “Implicit Bias Test,” which was created to test people’s unconscious bias toward words and concepts, and toward races. It is not about conscious attitudes and beliefs, as one researcher tells us in the film, but about something you yourself may not know you have.”
This article looks at how large of an impact small implicit biases can have on underrepresented groups. It features statistics of salary disparities and an interview with Ron Mallon, a professor at Washington University, to go into further detail about these large impacts.
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Citation (Chicago):
Lombrozo, Tania. “How Small Inequalities Lead to Big Inequalities.” WPSU. July 24, 2017. http://radio.wpsu.org/post/how-small-inequities-lead-big-inequalities
This audio transcript from the NPR segment, Hidden Brain, explores police violence, implicit bias, and how racism can affect us all. To listen to the original audio, click the hyperlink in the PDF to be taken to the original page.
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Citation (Chicago):
Vedantam, Shankar. “The ‘Thumbprint of the Culture’: Implicit bias and Police Shootings.” WPSU. June 5, 2017. http://radio.wpsu.org/post/thumbprint-culture-implicit-bias-and-police-shootings
Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives by Howard J. Ross
September 9, 2014
“If you are human, you are biased.
From this fundamental truth, diversity expert Howard Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people of different races or different genders. And yet in virtually every area of modern life disparities remain. Even in corporate America, which has for the most part embraced the idea of diversity as a mainstream idea, patterns of disparity remain rampant. Why?
Breakthroughs in the cognitive and neurosciences give some idea why our results seem inconsistent with our intentions. Bias is natural to the human mind, a survival mechanism that is fundamental to our identity. And overwhelmingly it is unconscious.
Incorporating anecdotes from today’s headlines alongside case studies from over 30 years as a nationally prominent diversity consultant, Ross help readers understand how unconscious bias impacts our day-to-day lives and particularly our daily work lives. And, he answers the question: “Is there anything we can do about it?” by providing examples of behaviors that the reader can engage in to disengage the impact of their own biases. With an added appendix that includes lessons for handling conflict and bias in the workplace, this book offers an invaluable resource for a broad audience, from individuals seeking to understand and confront their own biases to human resource professionals and business leaders determined to create more bias-conscious organizations in the belief that productivity, personal happiness, and social growth are possible if we first understand the widespread and powerful nature of the biases we don’t realize we have.”
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