We Understand Implicit Bias, Now What? A Conversation With Stanford Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt
Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt explains how implicit bias works in different social settings including police departments.
Jul 14, 2020
4 minutes
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order this month requiring health care workers in the state to undergo implicit bias training to obtain or renew their medical licenses.
Over the years, we’ve been learning how implicit bias — one’s unconscious attitudes or beliefs about a group of people — targets Black people at all levels of society from health care to schools and policing. Regardless of race, everyone carries societal biases.
Stanford psychologist has done a multi-year exploration of policing in America. Her research found the association between Black Americans and crime is so powerful that just thinking about violent crime can lead people to focus
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