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What is “implicit” about implicit biases?

The discussion following Jules’ post about “awareness of implicit bias” prompted me to spend some time looking into how the term implicit is defined in the literature. What I found was a lack of consensus and often a lack of clarity surrounding the use of the term implicit. The term “Implicit” in psychology originally comes …

Homophobic bias and the effects of ‘owning’ biases

  There are plenty of news stories this week of attempts to combat explicit homophobic discrimination at the Sochi winter Olympic games. Those of us who explicitly reject anti-gay bias might nonetheless be vulnerable to homophobic implicit bias; a number of studies have shown this to be one prominent sort of implicit bias that yields …