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What can the implicit social cognition literature teach us about implicit social cognition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Benedek Kurdi  and
Yarrow Dunham Open the ORCID record for Yarrow Dunham [Opens in a new window]
Benedek Kurdi
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Department of Psychology, Yale University New Haven, CT 06511. benedek.kurdi@yale.edu; http://www.benedekkurdi.com yarrow.dunham@yale.edu; http://www.socialcogdev.com
Yarrow Dunham
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University New Haven, CT 06511. benedek.kurdi@yale.edu; http://www.benedekkurdi.com yarrow.dunham@yale.edu; http://www.socialcogdev.com
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Abstract

We highlight several sets of findings from the past decade elucidating the relationship between implicit social cognition and real-world inequality: Studies focusing on practical ramifications of implicit social cognition in applied contexts, the relationship between implicit social cognition and consequential real-world outcomes at the level of individuals and geographic units, and convergence between individual-level and corpus-based measures of implicit bias.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e80
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