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Mar 2023
54m 25s

Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Would you consider yourself to be prejudiced against people who are different from you? Most of us would say no. But in the late 1990s, researchers created a test to measure biases that may be hidden from our conscious minds. Millions of people have taken it since, and not everyone likes what they've discovered. This week, we launch a two-part look at implic ... Show More
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