Tamler: I would be surprised if there weren't a lot of attitudes that we have, or the veilance of which we are not either fully aware of or even aware of at any level. So could be that you are a really bias against a pregnant women, and when you get on a buss in this pregnant woman, you just, you don't look in her direction, and you sort of ignore her when she speaks. You deny it, but none the less, its sort ofis influencing some aspect of your behaviour. Tamler: For it to be a an implicit attitude, is it, does it also influence behaviour in some way? That that's a really good question
David and Tamler tackle the topic of implicit bias and the controversy surrounding the implicit association test (IAT). What is implicit bias anyway? Does it have to be linked to behavior in order to truly count as a "bias"? Has the IAT been overhyped as a reflection of individual or group prejudice? And why is the debate on this topic so depressing? Plus, some deep thoughts on the intellectual dark web, how to join it, and what the analogy is supposed to reflect.
Sponsored By:
- RXBAR Promo Code: badwizards
Support Very Bad Wizards
Links:
- Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times
- Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job -- Science of Us
- Implicit-association test - Wikipedia
- Take the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)
- Greenwald, A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 17.
- Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E. (2013). Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 105(2), 171.
- Nock, M. K., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). Prediction of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents using a brief performance-based test. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 75(5), 707.
- Uhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 293-322. — This is a paper in which Eric Uhlmann, Paul Bloom and one of your humble hosts try to tackle the ways in which the word 'unconscious' is used (and abused) in the literature on social cognition.