An exploration of possible unconscious ethnic biases in higher education: The role of implicit attitudes on selection for university posts

Beattie, Geoffrey; Cohen, Doron; McGuire, Laura

doi:10.1515/sem-2013-0087

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“…n Engaging in deliberative processing can help counter implicit biases, particularly during situations in which decision-makers may face time constraints or a weighty cognitive load (Beattie et al, 2013;D. J. Burgess, 2010;Richards-Yellen, 2013).…”

Section: Primer On Implicit Biasmentioning

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Striving While Accepting: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Implicit Bias Recognition and Management

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Striving While Accepting: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Implicit Bias Recognition and Management

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“…In everyday social life, people have a tendency to evaluate others based on personal and social attributes that are not relevant to the matters under consideration. For example, attributes of a person, like their race, gender, or socioeconomic status, can influence other people's judgments of them on a number of dimensions, including their perceived suitability for an advertised post (Beattie, Cohen, & McGuire, 2013), their perceived guilt or the seriousness of their crime in a courtroom setting (Downs & Lyons, 1991;Porter, ten Brinke, & Gustaw, 1991), or even the perceived hostility of their facial expressions or actions (Devine, 1989). However, the social attitudes that give rise to these judgments are not always explicit to those who are actually making the judgments, and the influence of these social attitudes can go largely unnoticed (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995).…”

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The Role of Explicit Categorization in the Implicit Association Test

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2019

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The present study investigated how task-irrelevant attributes of a stimulus affected responses in a multi-attribute version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). In Experiment 1, participants categorized images of Black and White male and female individuals on the basis of either race or gender. Both the race and gender of the individuals affected task performance regardless of which attribute was currently relevant to performing the task, yielding the IAT effects on both attributes. However, the influences of a task-irrelevant attribute depended on whether the task-relevant attribute was categorized compatibly or incompatibly with the underlying implicit biases. These results suggest that individuals are still categorized implicitly based on task-irrelevant social attributes and that the explicit categorization required in the standard IAT has a considerable impact on implicit social biases. Experiment 2 considered a third, non-social attribute (the color of the picture frame) and reproduced task-irrelevant IAT effects and their dependence on explicit categorization. However, Experiments 3 and 4 suggested that the task-irrelevant IAT effects based on social attributes are determined by whether the task-relevant attribute is a social or non-social attribute. The results raise fundamental questions about the basic assumptions underpinning the interpretations of the results from the IAT.

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“…Research has shown that in some domains implicit attitudes (measured using the Implicit Association Test, or IAT) and self-reported attitudes show little or no correlation. This seems to be the case in the environmental domain (Beattie, 2010: Beattie and Sale, 2009Brunel et al, 2004;Friese et al, 2006;Hofmann et al, 2005), and other 'sensitive' domains like race (Beattie, 2012b;Beattie et al, 2013).…”

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Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice

McGuire

Beattie

2019

Semiotica

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One major assumption in the climate change debate is that because respondents report positive attitudes to the environment and to low carbon lifestyles they will subsequently engage in environmentally friendly/low carbon behaviors when given the right guidance or information. Many governmental agencies have based their climate change strategy on this basic assumption, despite some anxiety about the value-action gap in psychology more generally. Here we test this assumption. We investigated the relationship between explicit and implicit attitudes to carbon footprint, and both self-reports of environmental behavior and low carbon behavioral choices. We found that self-reported attitudes to carbon footprint were significantly associated only with self-reported environmental and self-reported low-carbon behaviors. They were not significantly associated with the choice of low carbon alternatives in a simulated shopping task. Given that the vast majority of studies on attitudes and behavior in the environmental domain use self-report measures of behavior, this may mean that we are generating research findings that could be making policy makers overly complacent about our readiness for actual behavior change. Implicit attitudes were not significantly associated with either measure in terms of group comparisons, but those with a strong positive implicit attitude towards low carbon did choose more low carbon items, but only under time pressure. The opposite trend was found for explicit attitudes – this increased only when participants were not under time pressure. These results suggest that Kahneman’s hypothesis about contrasting systems of human cognition might be highly relevant to the domain of climate change and behavioral adaptation.

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An exploration of possible unconscious ethnic biases in higher education: The role of implicit attitudes on selection for university posts

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 publications

Striving While Accepting: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Implicit Bias Recognition and Management

Striving While Accepting: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Implicit Bias Recognition and Management

The Role of Explicit Categorization in the Implicit Association Test

Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice

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