Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias

Bell, Sarah Beth; Farr, Rachel H.; Ofosu, Eugene K; Hehman, Eric; DeWall, C. Nathan

doi:10.1080/00224545.2021.1975619

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“…In addition to health disparities, regional racial bias has been linked to a wide variety of other outcomes and population characteristics in the United States. Black children are adopted from foster care at lower rates in states with higher levels of racial bias (Bell et al, 2021). In the context of education, Black students are disciplined more and perform worse on tests than White students in counties where teachers are more racially biased (Chin et al, 2020) and where residents are more racially biased (Riddle & Sinclair, 2019), and achievement gaps between Black and White students are larger in counties were residents are more racially biased (Pearman, 2021).…”

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Regional intergroup bias

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Ebert

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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Section: Regional Racial Biasmentioning

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Regional intergroup bias

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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Recent work has suggested that another implicit measure, the IAT (Implicit Association Test), might best predict outcomes at the aggregate level (Connor & Evers, 2020; Payne et al, 2017). For example, recent work has shown that although the effect size for the IAT predicting prejudice-related outcomes is small (although, notably, larger than that for explicit evaluations; Kurdi et al, 2019), implicit measures reliably predict regional outcomes such as the use of police force, health disparities, and adoption decisions (Bell et al, 2021; Hehman et al, 2018; Leitner et al, 2018). Perhaps due to measurement characteristics (Connor & Evers, 2020), it could be useful to continue to examine when different types of implicit measures predict outcomes in the aggregate versus individual level.…”

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The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game

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Mann

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Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Recent work has shown that people can update their implicit evaluations based on facial trustworthiness. However, do these updated implicit evaluations map onto subsequent decisions? We examined whether implicit evaluations based on faces but updated in light of new behavioral evidence uniquely predict responses in the trust game. Across six studies ( N = 2,059), we measured participants’ initial implicit evaluations of a target based on the target’s face and then their updated implicit evaluations based on newly learned behavioral evidence. We then tested whether these updated implicit evaluations uniquely predicted (i.e., beyond explicit evaluations) responses in a hypothetical trust game. Although participants consistently based their initial evaluations on the face and updated their evaluations after learning new diagnostic information, their updated implicit evaluations did not uniquely predict their responses in the trust game. We discuss theoretical considerations in this article.

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“…Bias can be innate or learned through social and cultural biases; however, anchoring to stereotypes, holding onto generic views, overrepresentation and misinterpreting research or people’s narratives can hinder reflection. Engaging in these examples of bias results in excluding potential adoptive parents – particularly those from minoritised ethnic groups (Barn and Kirton, 2012; Bell et al., 2021).…”

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BRAC²eD model: An approach to de-bias decision-making in adoption assessments with prospective adopters from minoritised ethnic groups

Cane

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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Cultural misunderstandings, systemic barriers, restrictive policies, inconsistent and subjective views around standards and requirements have prevented families from minoritised ethnic backgrounds from successfully adopting. Such barriers have led to a reluctance to adopt and a lack of trust in the adoption system. In this article, the author argues that these barriers arise from cognitive bias which affects decision-making in adoption. The BRAC2eD model for de-biasing is introduced to support adoption assessments of individuals and families from minoritised ethnic groups. It recognises that the process of assessing prospective adopters is complex and offers strategies to de-bias. In this model, social workers are encouraged to acknowledge the existence of bias, engage in de-biasing nudges, internal conversations and reflexive processes that support challenging bias, utilise cognitive resources towards de-biasing, and change and determine proportionate decisions. The contention for appropriate language around Black, Asian, Mixed ethnic and Other minoritised groups is acknowledged. The author uses ‘minoritised ethnic groups’ as a preferred term based on her own identity, however she appreciates that those referred to may have their own preferred terms. With that in mind, social workers must understand cultural and sub-cultural differences and preferences without homogenising the people they work with.

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Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Regional intergroup bias

Regional intergroup bias

The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game

BRAC²eD model: An approach to de-bias decision-making in adoption assessments with prospective adopters from minoritised ethnic groups

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Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Regional intergroup bias

Regional intergroup bias

The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game

BRAC2eD model: An approach to de-bias decision-making in adoption assessments with prospective adopters from minoritised ethnic groups

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BRAC²eD model: An approach to de-bias decision-making in adoption assessments with prospective adopters from minoritised ethnic groups