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Implicit Bias insights from a pioneer in the field

Learn from Professor Mahzarin Banaji, the Harvard University psychologist who co-developed the seminal Implicit Association Test—and whose work introduced the term "Implicit Bias."

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The Implicit Association Test (IAT)

What implicit biases might exist in your mind? How do they compare with your explicit beliefs? Take the IAT to find out!

Article

Bias in media: a case study

Media is a powerful, mostly positive tool, but it can also propagate bias. See how bias plays out in the media coverage of the war in Ukraine.

3 min

Action sheet

Debias the classroom

What can you do as an educator to reduce bias in the classroom? Try this action sheet.

Action sheet

How to conduct a structured interview

Structured interviews are over 2x better than standard unstructured interviews at identifying talent. What’s the secret?

Interactive

When does life “spark” in a face?

How human does a face have to be before it looks alive? Try this human-doll morph to test your intuitions.

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Bias in Healthcare

Medical experts want to treat everyone equally, but implicit bias can shape their treatment recommendations. Learn how doctors can subvert their bias to make medical treatment equitable.

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Interactive

You Predict: Where Is Bias in America Headed?

How have various implicit biases—weight, disability, age, skin-tone, race, and sexuality—changed across the U.S.? Draw your predictions on the graph, and compare them with the real data.

Article

How you speak may affect your access to healthcare

A person’s language patterns and accent can impact their access to mental and physical healthcare. How can we overcome this bias and ensure equitable treatment for everyone?

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Video

What Sentence Would You Give?: Watch for the Anchoring Bias

We’ve all heard of cases where two people receive very different sentences for committing identical crimes. One hidden bias that can influence these kinds of decisions is the Anchoring Effect.

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Video

Foreigners in their own country: Asians in America

Ms. King and Ms. Kang are both native-born American citizens. Are they equally American? The answer may seem obvious to you… but your brain might disagree.

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Changes in Bias Across America: An Explorable Map

Research suggests that Americans are showing a reduction in some implicit biases. Explore interactive maps to see how implicit age, race, and sexuality biases have changed across the U.S.

Video

4 Ways to Manage Stress: An Interview with Professor Katie McLaughlin

One powerful way to turn the stress response into an advantage is to reappraise it. What are other ways to manage stress? Stress expert Professor Katie McLaughlin weighs in.

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Video

Make Stress Work for You: Cognitive Reappraisal

Negative stress is bad for us. But the science suggests that when reframed, the stress response actually helps us perform better. Learn about the science of cognitive reappraisal, featuring Professor Kate McLaughlin.

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Interactive

Should You Trust Your Vision?

This demo, based on experiments by Professors Dan Levin and Mahzarin Banaji, lets you test a powerful illusion.

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When seeing shouldn’t be believing: Illusions at work

A common expression tells us that “seeing is believing”. But sometimes there are illusions at work, whether we’re looking at checkerboards, human faces, or resumes. Luckily, there are ways we can debunk them.

04:18

Podcast

“The DNA is a Match”: Confirmation Bias

We have more information at our fingertips than ever before… but this doesn’t mean we’re making better decisions. From DNA analysis to political debates to fantasy football, our desire to confirm our beliefs skews how we interpret the data in front of us.

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Podcast

The Attractiveness Halo Effect

When it comes to food, presentation and taste are connected: the eyes eat first. The science suggests we apply a similar idea to people: attractive people are seen as smarter, kinder, more moral, and so on. It’s called the attractiveness halo.

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Article

Even when judges are race-fair, Afrocentric features bias sentencing for Black and White inmates.

An analysis of over 200 cases in Florida found that judges showed no racial bias in their sentencing decisions. Yet, the same analysis revealed that race was still influencing their decisions.

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How well can you read a face?

Do you know what “competence” looks like? Try this quiz, based on Professor Alexander Todorov’s 2005 experiment, to learn what your impressions predict.

Podcast

The Availability Bias

What’s more likely: death by shark attack, or death by lightning strike? Most people choose the wrong answer. Why? It’s the availability bias—our tendency to assume that events that come easily to mind must be more common or true.

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7 Questions That Will Make You Rethink What You Know

Which is more likely: achieving sainthood or winning the jackpot? Are you sure? This short quiz may shake your confidence and have you asking “how do I know that’s true?”.

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How Good is Your Memory?

Here’s a little memory test designed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973) to reveal a cognitive blindspot.

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How Often Do You Wash The Dishes?: A Test For Housemates

We all help around the house. But how much? This simple task requires having a housemate of some sort (a partner, a roommate) who’s willing to try it too. Based on the 1979 study by psychologists Michael Ross and Fiore Sicoly.

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The Pygmalion Effect

Expectations can be powerful. Even if they’re never said out loud, the beliefs we carry in our minds can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Podcast

Race Bias in Hiring: When Both Applicant and Employer Lose

In a groundbreaking study, sociologist Devah Pager showed that being Black hurts an applicant’s chances of being hired just as much as a felony conviction. What do decisions based on gut instincts mean for the survival of a business?

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Article

Traditional “diversity training” is out. Now what?

Data collected between 1970-2002 suggest that traditional mandatory trainings don’t work, and can even backfire. How do we create education that works?

Article

Can women be biased against other women?

The science suggests that we evaluate men’s and women’s work differently… regardless of our own gender. Why? And what can we do about it?

Video

Strooped!

Most of us believe we can control what pieces of information influence our decisions. But when it comes down to it, can we? The Stroop Test suggests: no. Try it for yourself.