The Implicit Association Test
December 15, 2010
The work of psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, focuses on unconscious biases and their social consequences. Banaji heads the Project Implicit research group at Harvard and helps to maintain an online test—the Implicit Association Test (IAT)—which is designed to make people more aware of their unconscious biases. Click here to take the IAT.
Discussion Questions:
- What shapes how we see and act towards others?
- Is there an ethical or moral difference between conscious and unconscious biases? How do unconscious biases reveal themselves?
- To what extent are our biases unconscious?
- How can people overcome unconscious biases?
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