Self-Regulation and Bias

Monteith, Margo J.; Arthur, Steven; Flynn, Sarah

doi:10.4135/9781446200919.n30

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“…At a conceptual level, we would agree that such an approach has value. In fact, this approach is consistent with findings from the social psychological literature showing that, with some practice, people can develop strategies to counteract the influence of implicit racial bias on their explicit thoughts, feelings, and actions (e.g., Monteith, Arthur, & Flynn, 2010). However, given the other demands on medical education to prepare trainees for the current rapidly-changing healthcare environment, these kinds of programs will need to be integrated into already crowded medical curricula, which may make them less feasible or effective.…”

Section: Social Psychological Approaches To the Reduction Of Healthcasupporting

confidence: 84%

Racial healthcare disparities: A social psychological analysis

Penner

Hagiwara

Eggly

et al. 2013

European Review of Social Psychology

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Around the world, members of racial/ethnic minority groups typically experience poorer health than members of racial/ethnic majority groups. The core premise of this article is that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to race and ethnicity play a critical role in healthcare disparities. Social psychological theories of the origins and consequences of these thoughts, feelings, and behaviors offer critical insights into the processes responsible for these disparities and suggest interventions to address them. We present a multilevel model that explains how societal, intrapersonal, and interpersonal factors can influence ethnic/racial health disparities. We focus our literature review, including our own research, and conceptual analysis at the intrapersonal (the race-related thoughts and feelings of minority patients and non-minority physicians) and interpersonal levels (intergroup processes that affect medical interactions between minority patients and non-minority physicians). At both levels of analysis, we use theories of social categorization, social identity, contemporary forms of racial bias, stereotype activation, stigma, and other social psychological processes to identify and understand potential causes and processes of health and healthcare disparities. In the final section, we identify theory-based interventions that might reduce ethnic/racial disparities in health and healthcare.

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Section: Social Psychological Approaches To the Reduction Of Healthcasupporting

confidence: 84%

Racial healthcare disparities: A social psychological analysis

Penner

Hagiwara

Eggly

et al. 2013

European Review of Social Psychology

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“…Rather than being expressed blatantly, contemporary prejudice often results from subtle racial biases (e.g., Dovidio & Gaertner, 2004) that lead to discriminatory outcomes (Dovidio et al, 2002;Penner et al, 2010). Being aware of subtle racial bias is important for attempting to control its deleterious effects (e.g., Monteith, Arthur, & Flynn, 2010). Our findings suggest that, rather than facilitating this process of prejudice reduction, President Obama's image is likely to thwart prejudice reduction by convincing people that they do not harbor subtle racial biases.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…A hallmark of contemporary prejudice is its often subtle, nonconscious form (e.g., Dovidio, Kawakami, & Gaertner, 2002;Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, & Williams, 1995), and a critical first step in reducing the influence of implicit intergroup biases can involve being aware of them (Monteith, Arthur, & Flynn, 2010;Monteith, Mark, & AshburnNardo, 2010). Obama's presidency may not only lead people to view societal prejudice as a thing of the past, but people may also be reticent to recognize bias in themselves.…”

Section: Possible Paradoxical Effects Of Obama's Exemplar(y) Status?mentioning

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The effect of Obama saliency on individual-level racial bias: Silver bullet or smokescreen?

Lybarger

Monteith

2011

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Thus, as Burgess, van Ryn, Dovidio, and Saha (2007) suggested, interventions directed at physicians may be especially productive if they address the subtle, often unintentional, nature of racial bias. Specifically, research suggests that making physicians aware of how implicit bias can influence outcomes of medical encounters and sensitizing them to their own potential for bias can help them “correct” for potential bias in the short-term (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2004) and motivate them to engage in self-regulatory process that can inhibit even subtle expression of bias in the longer term (see Monteith, Arthur, & Flynn, in press). …”

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confidence: 99%

Aversive racism and medical interactions with Black patients: A field study

Penner

Dovidio

West

et al. 2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Medical interactions between Black patients and nonBlack physicians are usually less positive and productive than same-race interactions. We investigated the role that physician explicit and implicit biases play in shaping physician and patient reactions in racially discordant medical interactions. We hypothesized that whereas physicians' explicit bias would predict their own reactions, physicians' implicit bias, in combination with physician explicit (self-reported) bias, would predict patients' reactions. Specifically, we predicted that patients would react most negatively when their physician fit the profile of an aversive racist (i.e., low explicit-high implicit bias). The hypothesis about the effects of explicit bias on physicians' reactions was partially supported. The aversive racism hypothesis received support. Black patients had less positive reactions to medical interactions with physicians relatively low in explicit but relatively high in implicit bias than to interactions with physicians who were either (a) low in both explicit and implicit bias, or (b) high in both explicit and implicit bias.Although there has been dramatic improvement in the health of all people living in the United States over the past 50 years, the level of disparities between Black and White Americans for

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Self-Regulation and Bias

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Racial healthcare disparities: A social psychological analysis

Racial healthcare disparities: A social psychological analysis

The effect of Obama saliency on individual-level racial bias: Silver bullet or smokescreen?

Aversive racism and medical interactions with Black patients: A field study

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