{"id":62914,"date":"2022-03-31T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=62914"},"modified":"2022-04-06T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:44:22","slug":"implicit-racial-bias-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/implicit-racial-bias-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Racial Bias: Can It Be Overcome?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/implicit-racial-bias\/\">implicit racial bias<\/a>? How can implicit racial bias be challenged if, by definition, it &#8220;lives&#8221; in the unconscious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implicit racial bias refers to racist beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes that people harbor without their awareness.&nbsp;In other words, implicit bias is unconscious. Because our unconscious minds are extremely suggestible, we can address our unconscious biases through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/priming-meaning\/\">priming<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about implicit racial bias, how it&#8217;s detected, and how it can be overcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-understanding-implicit-racial-bias\">Understanding Implicit Racial Bias<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our attitudes about race and gender operate on two levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Our <strong>conscious attitudes <\/strong>are what we choose to believe and how we choose to behave. They are the source of our deliberate decisions.<\/li><li>Our <strong>unconscious attitudes<\/strong> are our unthinking, automatic associations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mismatches between these two levels can lead us to behave in a biased manner even when we think we\u2019re being impartial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-measuring-implicit-racism-the-implicit-association-test\">Measuring Implicit Racism: <strong>The Implicit Association Test<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To show that our unconscious attitudes don\u2019t always match up with our conscious beliefs, Gladwell introduces the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/subconscious-bias-harvard-unconscious-bias-test\/\">Implicit Association Test<\/a> (IAT). The IAT is a tool that attempts to measure the unconscious associations that people have with certain categories, for example, gender or race. The creators of the IAT argue that it can uncover your implicit racial bias through the measurement of your reaction time. Are you faster to react when pairing positive words, such as \u201cwonderful,\u201d with white faces or black faces? How about negative words such as \u201cevil\u201d? (You can find the IAT online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.implicit.harvard.edu\">www.implicit.harvard.edu<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in trying it.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of their stated beliefs, <strong>more than 80% of IAT-takers have \u201cpro-white associations.\u201d<\/strong> In other words, it takes slightly longer for most people to put words like \u201cglorious\u201d and \u201cwonderful\u201d in the \u201cAfrican American\u201d category than to put words like \u201churt\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d in the same category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This doesn\u2019t just apply to test-takers who aren\u2019t African American\u2014<strong>50% of more than 50,000 African Americans tested have pro-white associations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unconscious racial and gender attitudes still matter, regardless of the conscious attitudes we articulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-implications-of-implicit-racial-bias\"><strong>The Implications of Implicit Racial Bias<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As Gladwell points out, the implications of a mismatch in conscious and unconscious beliefs are unsettling. When we act automatically, we depend on our implicit attitudes. If you have strong pro-white associations, you\u2019ll act differently around someone who\u2019s Black, and you probably won\u2019t even be aware that you\u2019re behaving differently. You might, for example, show less positive emotion or make less eye contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re a Black woman explaining your symptoms to a white male doctor with pro-white associations. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-unconscious-mind\/\">unconscious mind<\/a> picks up on the doctor\u2019s subtle distance and lack of eye contact, and you lose confidence and start struggling to articulate your thoughts clearly. The doctor\u2019s unconscious mind picks up on this. He gets the gut feeling that you\u2019re making up or exaggerating your symptoms, perhaps guessing that it\u2019s to get access to a particular medication. He sends you away without a prescription\u2014leaving you suffering and<strong> reinforcing his own unconscious pro-white associations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our unconscious racial and gender attitudes <em>matter<\/em>, regardless of the conscious attitudes we articulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Implicit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/racial-bias-in-the-criminal-justice-system\/\">Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System<\/a><\/strong><br><br>In <em>Biased<\/em>, social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt examines the social and neurological mechanisms involved in implicit racial bias. She shows how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/biased\">our brain\u2019s normal instinct to categorize can lead us to make erroneous associations between race and threat<\/a>. As an example, Eberhardt describes a 1976 study that found that when people watched a video of a fake argument in which a white person physically pushed a black person, only 17% of viewers classified the white person as violent. When the black person pushed the white person, <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/1977-21139-001\">75% of viewers said the black person was violent<\/a>.<br><br>Eberhardt\u2019s work shows that these implicit associations carry over to the criminal justice system. For example, Black drivers are far more likely than white drivers to be pulled over by police for minor violations, even though most of these police don\u2019t hold explicitly racist attitudes. Black people who are convicted of crimes receive harsher penalties for the same crimes than white criminals, including a higher rate of death penalty sentences.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-can-you-do-to-change-your-unconscious-biases\"><strong>What Can You Do to Change Your Unconscious Biases?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you fix something that happens below the level of conscious thought? Gladwell argues that you can retrain your implicit assumptions by being aware of them and actively using your conscious mind to counter them. For example, you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-use-priming-to-your-advantage\"><strong>1. Use priming to your advantage.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Gladwell suggests that if you\u2019re about to take the IAT, or to do anything in which unconscious racial bias might be activated, you strategically look at images of successful people of color before starting. Doing this, he says, will prompt your unconscious to make positive associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The priming may not need to be so specific. In one study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattmotyl.com\/M_et_al_SharedHumanExperiences_2011.pdf\">people who were primed to think about shared human experiences across cultures showed lower anti-Arab bias<\/a>. In this study, two different forms of priming were effective. The first was looking at pictures of people in different cultures engaged in normal social activities, while the second was thinking about meaningful childhood memories that might be shared across cultures.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-change-your-experiences\"><strong>2. Change your experiences.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Your unconscious attitudes are based on your environment and the accumulation of prior experiences. To change your unconscious attitudes, Gladwell says you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/change-your-environment\/\">change your environment<\/a> and experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you become aware of an implicit association that\u2019s discriminatory\u2014perhaps you take the race section of the IAT and you\u2019re one of the 80% of people tested who have a white preference\u2014Gladwell suggests that you alter the association by exposing yourself to people who counter your implicit biases. Read books, watch movies, and become familiar and comfortable with cultures that your unconscious mind discriminates against. You\u2019re training your unconscious mind to change its opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Many authors who examine racial prejudice would argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/mere-exposure-effect-example\/\">mere exposure<\/a> isn\u2019t sufficient to change unconscious attitudes. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race\"><em>So You Want to Talk About Race<\/em><\/a>, for example, Ijeoma Oluo argues that conscious engagement, especially through difficult conversations that are specifically about racial issues, is key in changing attitudes.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is implicit racial bias? How can implicit racial bias be challenged if, by definition, it &#8220;lives&#8221; in the unconscious? Implicit racial bias refers to racist beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes that people harbor without their awareness.&nbsp;In other words, implicit bias is unconscious. Because our unconscious minds are extremely suggestible, we can address our unconscious biases through priming. 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