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PSYC3540 Implicit Bias Worksheet Consider how automatic components of implicit bias are present in the real world in your personal interactions with others (attitudes and behaviors), such as in conversations with friends or coworkers, or in the media, such as in the news. Choose two specific personal incidents and one you observed in the media, and, based on information from the Blaine and Brenchley textbook, think about possible causes of the implicit bias you observed and complete the following five tasks (omit identifiers, such as names of people or businesses): Instruction Your Answer Provide an example of a time when you observed possible implicit bias in a work or social setting, or in the media on a news segment or on an internet source. What cues led you to believe that implicit bias may have played role in this situation? *Explain two or more possible causes of the implicit bias based on information from our Blaine and Brenchley textbook. My son Joey is 5 years old and is a very rough and rowdy boy with a very balanced soft side. Since he was a baby, his favorite has always been pink. My in-laws have often made remarks on how pink is a girl’s color and have made assumptions that liking this color would determine his sexual preference as he grows older. Now that he is in school, some of his friends who are male have told him that he cannot like pink because that is a girl color. The cues that led me to a knowing that this is gender bias was the assumption that colors belong to a gender. Causes of this example of implicit bias are likely contributed to the cultural belief that pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Domicele Jonauskaite writes how the gender associations between pink, and females began in the early 20th century (Jonauskaite, 2021). It soon became a social norm to dress babies in pink if they are a girl and blue if they are a boy, ultimately paving the way to train the minds of individuals to associate pink being a girl color. A study was performed to investigate whether red, blue, and pink have gender biases. The study revealed that only pink had a gender bias, and the bias was towards female (Jonauskaite, 1

Instruction Your Answer 2021). Marketing plays a role in the possible cause for the formation of gender bias towards associating pink with girls. We often see boys advertised as playing with cultural norm masculine toys, yet we rarely see boys advertised as playing with toys that are considered girly. Provide an example of a time where you believe you, a family member, or a friend were stereotyped based on group status and/or social identity. How did you feel when the situation occurred? What if anything did you do? *Explain two or more possible causes of the implicit bias based on information from our Blaine and Brenchley textbook. An old coworker who was bartending at the restaurant we worked at together handed menus to a group of young males when I saw her body language change. One of the men mockingly said, “You’re Latino and loaded with tattoos, I bet you have a lot of stories”. After talking to her on the side about what they meant by that comment. She made me aware that many Latinos are viewed to be associated with criminal or gang members and they were likely making another association with tattoos and gang members. When this situation occurred, I instantly gave her a hug as she smiled and rolled her eyes. I felt her annoyance with the stereotype comment, and I felt sad and annoyed for her. Looking into this further, I understand from our textbook that blacks and Latinos are both racially profiled substantially higher than white individuals (Blaine & Brenchley, 2021, p.38). From our text, social categorizations that have been developed in our culture are largely exaggerated and create a sense of separateness among our society (Blaine & Brenchley, 2021, p.32). The individual who made the comment to my coworker developed a stereotype that was more than an innocent belief about Latinos. This individual was likely exposed to this stereotype in early childhood and then influenced consistency to reinforce this by peers and the media. These developed personal 2

Instruction Your Answer social believes likely derived from a conditioning causing him to internalize these believes into a negative form. Describe a situation where your perceptions and/or reactions were shaped by implicit bias. Were you aware of the bias at the time or is it something you have considered in retrospect? Explain your thoughts. Were your implicit biases challenged? *Explain how your insight into the situation can help you in changing or shaping your personal or professional behavior for the future. Implicit bias shows where our subconscious reveals potential preferences that are made from associations within that group (Blaine & Brenchley, 2021, p.32). I noticed this during an interview process where I unintentionally favored a woman who was like me and my experiences. I narrowed down the candidates to this woman and a gay white male. As I was reflecting on who I wanted to hire, I noticed that I was willing to select the woman because my mind craves the familiar. I now can identify this as implicit bias, although I did not know this term during this time. I called myself out and ended up hiring the male instead. I unknowingly challenged my implicit bias and overcame embedded preferences that have been lingering subconsciously for years. Reflecting on all scenarios in this worksheet provides me the ability to recognize from retrospect and identify areas of growth. Explain two or more strategies that can be used to prevent and combat implicit bias. *Use professional and scholarly sources to support the effectiveness of the strategies, and cite those sources. Unlearning biases is challenging but not impossible to do. While Greenwald identifies education as a necessary strategy at combatting implicit bias, the authors advise to proceed with caution as education can only go so far as the learner is willing to unlearn (Greenwald, Dasgupta, Kang, 2022). Understanding of what implicit bias is and the many forms it takes is the first step to gaining an internal awareness that is necessary to create change. The article displays how implicit biases should be treated as a public health problem and revealed through trainings (2022). 3

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Instruction Your Answer Trainings through education cannot solve the root cause of the problems at hand but rather can be used as a tool to inform individuals of what happens in their subconscious minds and the impact it has on other groups. By learning about the cause and effect of implicit bias, the learner can contemplate how these biases reveal in their own lives and can lead to lasting change with conscious effort. 5. Provide the full references for your sources in APA format. Jonauskaite D, Sutton A, Cristianini N, Mohr C. English colour terms carry gender and valence biases: A corpus study using word embeddings. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 1;16(6):e0251559. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251559. PMID: 34061875; PMCID: PMC8168888 . Greenwald, A. G., Dasgupta, N., Dovidio, J. F., Kang, J., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Teachman, B. A. (2022). Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem. Psychological Science in the Public Interest , 23 (1), 7- 40. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211070781 Blaine, B.E., & Brenchley, K.J.M. (2020). Under- standing the Psychology of Diversity(4th Edition). SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://capella.vital- source.com/books/9781544381091 4

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