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Mar 2023
54m 25s

Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode

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 implicit bias with psychologist Mahzarin Banaji. We ask how is it that we can hold negative stereotypes — without being aware of them.

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Project Implicit

Outsmarting Implicit Bias

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