1. Loretta L.C. Brady, Ph.D., APA-CP
Hiding in plain sight
How implicit biases hinder inclusion in selection and promotion strategies

2. Making the unconscious conscious
Google’s Journey

3. Agenda
1) Understand the concept of implicit bias and the ways it influences social judgments. 2) Identify events and conditioning that inform implicit biases, prototype biases, and affinity biases 3) Appreciate ways implicit biases impact recruitment, selection, and retention practices. 4) Develop tools to counter implicit bias in oneself, and to educate others.

4. Table Top Thoughts while taking IAT Physical Actions while taking IAT
Reflections on taking IAT
Questions about IAT task and research.

5. Implicit Association Task

8. Risk factors for implicit bias.
Distracted or pressured decisions.
Limited feedback
Certain emotional states
Ambiguity
Salient social categories
Low effort cognitive process

9. Awareness Test

10. What would you do?
What do we notice, how do we respond, and how aware are we of these processes?

14. We don’t see change in bias, but we do see change in statements.

16. Happiness Judgments

18. Brain Regions in Decisions

20. Prefrontal Cortex

21. Insula
Implicated in “disgust” and social judgment.

22. Rebound Effect
Efforts to suppress or take a color blind approach result in greater bias!

23. Dismantling Implicit Bias
Awareness
Suppression
Promotion (counter programming, stereotype countering images, decision making processes)

24. Present Counter Stereotype Information Regularly

25. Be Intentional about environment and referent opportunities

26. Read more!
Banaji & Greenwald 2013
Chabris & Simons, 2011

27. Strategies for Promotion
Decision factor cards-In legal and medical settings shown to be effective
Opinion reports-In judicial systems shown to help limit impact of Implicit Bias.
Note taking-In Legal Settings helps to keep all relevant info salient, not just what was most easily recalled during deliberation.

28. National Council for State Courts Resources

29. Loretta L.C. Brady, Ph.D., APA-CP