Resources on Implicit Bias

Additional Resources for Foundations Interested in Addressing Implicit Bias

PERCEPTION INSTITUTE

www.perception.org

In November 2014, the Perception Institute released The Science of Equality, Volume 1: Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in Education and Health Care. The landmark report synthesizes hundreds of studies, providing a comprehensive picture of the role of implicit bias in discrimination.

KIRWAN INSTITUTE

http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/

The Kirwan Institute has released a new State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review every year for the past two years. The original 2013 report applies the implications of implicit bias to education, health and criminal justice. The 2014 report builds on this by delving into employment and housing.

RESEARCH BY JERRY KANG

http://jerrykang.net/

Jerry Kang is vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at UCLA. He has written extensively about the role of implicit bias in civil rights and race. See:

On discrimination in evaluation:

• Seeing through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law (2010)

On affirmative action and race consciousness:

• Fair Measures: A Behavioral Realist Revision of Affirmative Action (2006)

On media policy:

• Trojan Horses of Race (2005)
• Bits of Bias (2012)

On personal responsibility and culture:

• New Cultural Defense (2011)

On the science of automatic processing:

• “TEDx – Immaculate Perception?” (2013)