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Blindspot : hidden biases of good people
- Author
- Banaji, Mahzarin R.
- Title
- Blindspot : hidden biases of good people / Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Bantam Books trade paperback edition.
- Published
- New York : Bantam Books, 2016.
- Description
- xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other contributors
- Greenwald, Anthony G.
- Variant title
- Blind spot : hidden biases of good people
- Notes
- "A Bantam Books trade paperback"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
- Contents
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- Mindbugs
- Shades of truth
- Into the blindspot
- "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
- Homo categoricus
- The hidden costs of stereotypes
- Us and them
- Outsmarting the machine
- Appendix 1: Are Americans racist?
- Appendix 2: Race, disadvantage, and discrimination.
- Summary
- The self-perception that one is able to assess others in a fair and accurate way is challenged as the authors explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. This book questions the extent to which our perceptions of social groups -- without our awareness or conscious control -- shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people's character, abilities and potential. Biases based on experience are revealed with the Implicit Association Test.
- Subject headings
- Prejudices--Psychological aspects. Discrimination--Psychological aspects.
- ISBN
- 9780345528438 (paperback) 0345528433 (paperback) 9781491528860 1491528869