Implicit Cognition at the Aristotelian Society
March 8, 2016
Last month I gave a talk at the Aristotelian Society, in which I asked ‘What do we want from a model of implicit cognition?’ Here’s the abstract for the paper: In this paper, I set out some desiderata for a model of implicit cognition. I present test cases and suggest that, when considered in light …
Start The Week
November 9, 2015
In Citizen, An American Lyric, the poet Claudia Rankine charts the forms of micro- and macro-aggression that racism takes in the US, and the UK. I participated in a panel on race and bias with Rankine, with poet Amir Darwish, and historian Catherine Fletcher, on this week’s Start the Week, BBC Radio 4. You can …
Pilot study on Blame
July 8, 2015
We are running a short pilot study on the experience of blame. Please take part in our survey which only takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Everyone who takes part has a chance of winning a £50 gift voucher to be spent at your choice of online retailer! The link to take part is below: https://sheffieldpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8J2JCkRR5O2fBHL …
The Implicit Mind
June 8, 2015
Myself, Tom and Robin recently had the opportunity to attend this event on The Implicit Mind, at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. It was a great forum for scholars working on a range of topics to do with implicit cognition to make progress in thinking about the structure of implicit cognition. One of …
What is “implicit” about implicit biases?
February 24, 2014
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 …
