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Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Daphna Oyserman Open the ORCID record for Daphna Oyserman [Opens in a new window]  and
Amabel Youngbin Jeon
Daphna Oyserman
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Mind and Society Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. oyserman@usc.edu, youngbin@usc.edu https://dornsife.usc.edu/daphna-oyserman, https://dornsife.usc.edu/mindandsociety/currentmembers/
Amabel Youngbin Jeon
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Mind and Society Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. oyserman@usc.edu, youngbin@usc.edu https://dornsife.usc.edu/daphna-oyserman, https://dornsife.usc.edu/mindandsociety/currentmembers/
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Abstract

Culture provides people with rich, detailed, implicit, and explicit knowledge about associations (what goes together) and contingencies (how situations are likely to unfold). These culture-based expectations allow people to get through their days without much systematic reasoning. Experimental designs that unpack these situated effects of culture on thinking, feeling, and doing can advance bias research and direct policy and intervention.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e86
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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