APS
29th APS Annual Convention
Admitting You Have a Problem: How to Help People Accept Their Implicit Biases and Do Something About Them
Research reveals pervasive defensiveness toward discrepant implicit/explicit attitudes. Strategies that may reduce this defensiveness include prediction of one’s scores before taking the IAT and self-affirmation. This can enhance acknowledgement of biases toward both negatively and positively stereotyped groups and can motivate individuals to prevent the behavioral consequences of these biases.
Chairs & Discussants
- Carmel SaadChair
Westmont College
Presentations
- Responding to IAT Feedback: Evidence for Defensive Self-ProcessesJennifer Howell, Kate Ratliff
- Prediction of Bias Increases Acknowledgement of Positive StereotypesWilliam Gibbs, Carmel Saad
- Facing One’s Implicit Bias: Prediction of IAT Scores, but Not IAT Completion, Leads to Acknowledgment of Intergroup BiasAdam Hahn, Bertram Gawronski
- Joining Forces: Combining Self-Affirmation and Prediction to Increase Bias Awareness and Motivation to Control the Consequences of BiasCarmel Saad
