An unintentional pro‐Black bias in judgement among educators

Axt, Jordan

doi:10.1111/bjep.12156

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“…Among participants who reported showing no bias on the task, there was actually a pro-Black criterion bias, a result that mirrors a similar pro-Black bias among White participants in an academic context (Axt, Ebersole, & Nosek, 2016;Axt, 2017). Among participants who reported wanting to show no bias on the task, Hispanic profiles received a higher criterion than Black or White profiles.…”

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The Judgment Bias Task: A flexible method for assessing individual differences in social judgment biases

Axt

Nguyen

Nosek

2018

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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is an officer and both he and J. R. Axt are consultants of Project Implicit, Inc., a nonprofit organization with the mission to "develop and deliver methods for investigating and applying phenomena of implicit social cognition, including especially phenomena of implicit bias based on age, race, gender, or other factors." The authors declared that they had no other potential conflicts of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article. Author Contributions: All authors developed the concept of studies 1a and 2a. J. R. Axt and H. N. Nguyen programmed studies 1a and 2a and analyzed the data. For all other studies, J. R. Axt and B.A. Nosek developed the concept, with J.R. Axt programming them and analyzing the data. J. R. Axt drafted the manuscript, and B. A. Nosek and H.N. Nguyen edited it. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.

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The Judgment Bias Task: A flexible method for assessing individual differences in social judgment biases

Axt

Nguyen

Nosek

2018

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…We also need to consider whether our original sample was biased or unbiased from the start (e.g., Axt, 2017; Kang et al, 2014 for studies finding samples without pro-Black bias at baseline). For example, we conducted the study within a multicultural environment, in which participants likely regularly interact with people of diverse origins.…”

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Body swapping with a Black person boosts empathy: Using virtual reality to embody another

Thériault

Olson

Krol

et al. 2021

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Perspective-taking, whether through imagination or virtual-reality interventions, seems to improve intergroup relations; however, what intervention leads to better outcomes remains unclear. This pre-registered study collected measures of empathy and race bias from 90 participants, split into one of three perspective-taking groups: embodied perspective-taking, mental perspective-taking, and a control group. We drew on virtual-reality technology alongside a Black confederate across all conditions. Only in the first group, participants got to exchange real-time viewpoints with the confederate and literally “see through the eyes of another.” In the two other conditions, participants either imagined a day in the life of the Black confederate or in their own life, respectively. Our findings show that, compared to the control group, the embodied perspective-taking group scored higher on empathy sub-components. On the other hand, both perspective-taking interventions differentially affected neither explicit nor implicit race bias. Our study suggests that embodiment of an outgroup can enhance empathy.

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“…Dovidio and Gaertner (2000) found White participants provided greater evaluations and were more likely to extend job offers to qualified Black candidates than they were to similar White candidates. Axt (2017) discovered educators accepted Blacks into an academic honor society with greater leniency than they did Whites. Byrd et al (2015) learned that Black political candidates were deemed more intelligent, inspired greater confidence, and were more likely to win participant votes than White candidates with identical résumés.…”

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Race matters in coaching: An empirical study of coaches’ willingness to have difficult conversations with leaders of color.

Bernstein¹

2023

Consulting Psychology Journal

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Do executive coaches have the skill sets necessary for effective partnership with Black leaders? Such inquiry remains unexamined, yet research from similar disciplines—such as education, medicine, and counseling—casts doubt. Drawing on these findings, a between-subjects experiment sampled 105 White coaches in the United States and examined their willingness to have “difficult conversations” with Black clients. The study investigated two questions in particular: (a) Do coaches provide less critical feedback to Black clients than they do White clients? and (b) Do coaches engage in fewer diversity-based conversations with Black clients than with White clients? The study found that, as hypothesized, coaches opted to sidestep cross-racial conversations that centered on diversity and development. More specifically, Black clients received more support but less challenge, less constructive feedback, and less time devoted to areas of development than did otherwise identical White clients. Coaches were also twice as likely to provide diversity-related feedback to White leaders than they were to Black leaders. Multiple implications hold for the coaching community and its clients of color. First, findings suggest Black organizational executives may be robbed of developmental opportunities offered to White executives. And, second, results indicate U.S. coaching-certification programs may not be adequately preparing their practitioners to navigate diversity dynamics with Black clients.

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An unintentional pro‐Black bias in judgement among educators

Cited by 8 publications

References 66 publications

The Judgment Bias Task: A flexible method for assessing individual differences in social judgment biases

The Judgment Bias Task: A flexible method for assessing individual differences in social judgment biases

Body swapping with a Black person boosts empathy: Using virtual reality to embody another

Race matters in coaching: An empirical study of coaches’ willingness to have difficult conversations with leaders of color.

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