Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.
Unlike explicit bias, which consists of the attitudes and assumptions we consciously recognize as part of our belief system, implicit bias refers to subconscious beliefs and attitudes about race, ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Staff training in implicit bias curbed racial disparities in the use of mechanical restraints at one Seattle hospital, a researcher reported. From 2015-2017, about 13% of ethnic ...
SPOKANE, Wash. – A two-part training designed to help police officers recognize their implicit bias, revealed some behavior improvement and lowered citizen discrimination complaints in a controlled ...
Diversity consultants say that implicit bias training is the key part of diversity, equity, and inclusion work that's often overlooked. Akilah Cadet, DHSc, MPH, is a diversity educator and activist ...
Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians. One woman was told by doctors that swelling, pain and warmth in ...
The Implicit Association Test works by asking participants to categorize groups of people with "good" words like "nice" or "laughter" and "bad" words like "nasty" or "rotten." Its results are ...
In contrast, different measures of implicit bias correlated about .2-.3 (Van Dessel et al, 2020). This is so low that it is not clear they measure the same thing—rendering it odd at best and ...