{"id":6298,"date":"2021-03-08T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:34:20","slug":"blog-post-2-culture-and-implicit-bias-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/08\/blog-post-2-culture-and-implicit-bias-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 2\u2014Culture and Implicit Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One aspect of the reading I found very interesting is the application of knowing versus endorsing in relation to automatic beliefs. Although humans are able to reflect and determine whether or not we endorse or subscribe to a particular belief or stereotype, however, this does not always line up with how an individual reacts at an automatic level. This difference between the conscious mind and unconscious mind creates implicit biases which an individual is often unaware of, or even if they realize they hold this bias, they may not want to admit because when they consciously reflect they disagree with their implicit biases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This concept aligns with an idea that has become more prominent in the past year about acknowledging your biases, but actively reflecting and combating them to avoid engaging in biased or harmful behaviors towards specific social groups or individuals, in particular to the ideas of anti-racism. This approach recognizes that unconscious bias based on automatic beliefs exist, but also attempts to consciously combat them, and even implies the opportunity to unlearn these biases. While the reading later says that the evidence supporting that this un-learning or re-conditioning away from formerly held automatic beliefs is not completely conclusive about its success long-term, this popular narrative accounts for this uncertainty, explaining this active reflection and re-conditioning as something to strive for as a constant practice. I think it&#8217;s interesting to see this logic in combating, racism, sexism, ableism, etc. enter mainstream media in the past year. If this idea of a constant reflective practice were taken up by the majority of the population, would we learn to be aware of our implicit biases at a younger age? Would the types of implicit biases we have change?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of the reading I found very interesting is the application of knowing versus endorsing in relation to automatic beliefs. Although humans are able to reflect and determine whether or not we endorse or subscribe to a particular belief or stereotype, however, this does not always line up with how an individual reacts at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}