Implicit Bias and Analyses of Discrimination
October 10, 2015
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a symposium at Humboldt University, Berlin, on Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’s recent book on discrimination: Born Free and Equal? A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature of Discrimination. The book offers an analysis of the notion of discrimination, and tackles some questions in which the concept is implicated (the relationship …
Implicit racism in academia
September 7, 2014
Subtle racism is prevalent in US and UK universities, according to a new paper commissioned by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and released last week, reports The Times Higher Education. Black professors surveyed for the paper said they were treated differently than white colleagues in the form of receiving less eye contact or requests …
Report on our first testing
August 8, 2014
Before the undergraduates escaped for their summer break we managed to subject some of them to the first large-scale trial of our IAT software. 83 participants undertook 2 positive/negative association IATs (a black vs white racial IAT & a Muslim vs Non-Muslim religion IAT). They also answered a series of explicit question about their views …
Homophobic bias and the effects of ‘owning’ biases
February 11, 2014
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 …
