Diversity Training

Alicia: What's causing resistance to diversity training is people feeling that their need for autonomy and choice are being jeopardized. She says studies show those who went through the study that allowed them to feel as if they had control over how they were thinking around inclusion, really came out with less bias. A psychologist at princeton found that people with particularly authoritarian personalities really tended to react strongly to the messages in such trainings. Alicia: We tend automatically, unconsciously, to divide the world into people who are like us and people who are not like us.