Bias, Awareness and Imperfect Cognitions
December 5, 2014
Are we aware of our implicit biases? If not, does this affect our responsibility for being biased and behaving in biased ways? The stakes here are pretty high, if implicit bias is, as recently argued, involved in the appallingly numerous cases of police shootings of African American males. In a recent paper, I argue that …
Problems with Bargh’s definition of unconscious
September 19, 2014
I have a new paper out in Frontiers in Psychology: The perspectival shift: how experiments on unconscious processing don’t justify the claims made for them. There has been ongoing consternation about the reliability of some psychology research, particularly studies which make claims about unconscious (social) priming. However, even if we assume that the empirical results …
Awareness of Implicit Bias?
January 29, 2014
There’s a nice video that gives some details of studies on implicit bias over at the Feminist Philosophers Blog. These studies are relevant to biases that influence hiring and evaluation decisions, and show that biases about race, gender, sexual orientation and parenting role can influence judgements of individuals’ skills. Apart from providing useful …
