Beyond Awareness: The Many Forms of Implicit Bias and Its Implications

Schmader, Toni; Bareket-Shavit, Carmelle; Baron, Andrew Scott

doi:10.1080/1047840x.2022.2106752

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“…As I have pointed out, responding to facts unconsciously may indeed be an important explanation of how it is possible that we unintentionally and unconsciously discriminate. One problem I see with the proposal, however, is that it implies that the absence of discrimination is the same as being color blind (see Dovidio & Kunst, 2022;Norman & Chen, 2022;Schmader et al, 2022). It does not consider that sometimes we should respond to social facts; we should step off the sidewalk when someone in a wheelchair comes from the other side, for example.…”

Section: Implicit Discrimination As Unconscious Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implicit bias as unintentional discrimination

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2023

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In this paper, I argue that instead of primarily paying attention to the nature of implicit attitudes that are taken to cause implicit discrimination, we should investigate how discrimination can be implicit in itself. I propose to characterize implicit discrimination as unintentional discrimination: the person responds to facts unintentionally and often unconsciously which are, given their end, irrelevant and imply unfair treatment. The result is a unified account of implicit bias that allows for the different ways in which it can display itself and can be explained. Furthermore, the view can account for the central characteristics of implicit bias: (1) that it is, for a variety of reasons, difficult to control, (2) that we are not necessarily unconscious of implicit bias but not properly conscious either, and (3) that we can unintentionally discriminate regardless of whether we claim to care about fairness.

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Section: Implicit Discrimination As Unconscious Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%