Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Introduction
- 21 Changing Implicit Bias versus Empowering People to Address the Personal Dilemma of Unintentional Bias
- 22 How Can We Change Implicit Bias toward Outgroups?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
22 - How Can We Change Implicit Bias toward Outgroups?
from Section V - How to Change Implicit Bias?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Introduction
- 21 Changing Implicit Bias versus Empowering People to Address the Personal Dilemma of Unintentional Bias
- 22 How Can We Change Implicit Bias toward Outgroups?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
Summary
Recent findings show that it is possible in some cases to robustly and durably change implicit impressions of novel individuals. This work presents a challenge to long-standing theoretical assumptions about implicit impressions, and raises new research directions for changing and reducing implicit bias toward outgroups. Namely, implicit impressions of newly encountered individuals and groups are more amenable to robust change and updating than previously assumed, and some of the lessons from this work point to when and how we might try to change implicit bias toward well-known and familiar stigmatized groups and individuals.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism , pp. 572 - 590Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025