Summary: <a href="http://www.gayleallen.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Blog-Post-Mahzarin-and-Blind-Spot.png" rel="attachment wp-att-3139"></a>Do good people discriminate more often than they think? That is exactly what a team of researchers found when they analyzed the thoughts and reactions of millions of people around the world. <br> <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mrbworks/">Harvard University Professor of Social Ethics, Mahzarin Banaji</a>, author of the book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blindspot-Hidden-Biases-Good-People/dp/0553804642">Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People</a>, shares surprising findings from <a href="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html">Implicit Association Tests</a> taken by over 18 million people from over 30 countries. What she reveals may surprise you.<br> Banaji is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as the Radcliffe and Santa Fe Institutes. She and her co-author <a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/agg/">Anthony Greenwald, Professor at Washington University</a>, have spent their careers uncovering the hidden biases we all carry when it comes to issues like race, gender, age, and socioeconomics.<br> In this interview, we talk about:<br> <br> How knowing our blindspots can help us innovate<br> How we can measure the extent of our biases with the Implicit Association Test<br> How the implicit association test can launch a dialogue around bias<br> Who we say is American versus who we really believe is American<br> How our tendency is to be curious and to want to learn about ourselves<br> How much we want to know is a measure of our smart we are<br> The role competition and social knowledge play in motivation to learn and grow<br> Why we need to get beyond learning about it to doing something about it<br> The importance of what we are willing to do to address our biases<br> Knowledge of bias helps us rethink hiring, law, admissions, medicine, and more<br> Bias in our minds hurts us, too<br> The fact that implicit bias starts as young as 6 years old<br> Disappointing differences in explicit vs implicit love of our ethnic or racial group<br> What is not associated with our groups in society gets dropped from our identities<br> Bias and discrimination can come from who we help<br> How referral programs can reinforce bias and lack of diversity<br> A tip on how to ensure referral programs cultivate diversity<br> The fact that we all like beautiful people and how that harms us<br> Ways to outsmart our biases<br> What symphony orchestras can teach us about overcoming bias in hiring<br> The fact that good people can and do have bias<br> How we will be perceived by future generations if we can address our biases<br> Whether Mahzarin likes science fiction<br> <br> Selected Links to Topics Mentioned<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/banaji">@banaji</a><br> <a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/">http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Greenwald">Anthony Greenwald</a><br> <a href="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html">Implicit Association Test</a><br> <a href="https://www.fitbit.com/">Fitbit</a><br> <a href="http://www.gcpartnership.com/Find-an-Event/Upcoming-Events/2016/August/8th-Annual-Inclusion-Conference">Inclusion Conference 2016</a><br> <a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/iris_bohnet/home">What Works by Iris Bohnet</a><br> <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sideways-view/201504/the-psychology-imprinting">Social imprinting</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_identity">Group identity</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram">Stanley Milgram</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse">Abu Ghraib</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia."></a>
