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1 - Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2024

Jon A. Krosnick
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Tobias H. Stark
Affiliation:
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Amanda L. Scott
Affiliation:
The Strategy Team, Columbus, Ohio
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Over the last several years, the study of implicit bias has taken the world by storm. Implicit bias was even mentioned by the then candidate, Hillary Clinton, in a presidential debate in 2016. She went on to claim that implicit bias can have deadly consequences when Black men encounter law enforcement (for example, see Correll et al., 2002; Correll et al., 2007; Eberhardt et al., 2004). The controversy over police shootings of Black men and women has only intensified as evidenced by public outcry over the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 and increasing public support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement and its calls for liberty, justice, and freedom (Cohn & Quealy, 2020). These current events are but one reason why the study of implicit bias has so captivated the attention of the larger public: reducing it seems to have the potential to solve real-world problems. One idea is that if police officers were made aware of their implicit bias or participated in training workshops to reduce implicit bias, then perhaps fewer Black people would end up dead, arrested, or disproportionately sentenced to receive the death penalty (Baumgartner et al., 2014; Eberhardt, 2020).

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