Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

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From one of the world s leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice.We do not have to be racist to be biased With a perspective that is both scientific, investigative, and also informed by personal experience, Eberhardt offers a reasoned look into the effects of implicit racial bias, ranging from the subtle to the dramatic Racial bias can lead to disparities in education, employment, housing, and the criminal justice system and then those very disparities further reinforce the problem In Biased,Eberhardt reveals how even when we are not aware of bias and genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior.Eberhardt s extensive work as a consultant to law enforcement, as well as a researcher with unprecedented access to data including footage from police officers body worn cameras, informs every aspect of her book and makes it much than a work of social psychology Her research occurs not just in the laboratory but in police departments, courtrooms, prisons, boardrooms, and on the street Interviews are interwoven with memories and stories from Eberhardt s own life and family She offers practical suggestions for reform, and takes the reader behind the scenes to police departments implementing her suggestions Refusing to shy away from the tragic consequences of prejudice, Eberhardt addresses how racial bias is not the fault of nor restricted to a few bad apples in police departments or other institutions We can see evidence of bias at all levels of society in media, education, and business practices In Biased,Eberhardt reminds us that racial bias is a human problem one all people can play a role in solving. New Download Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do Author Jennifer L. Eberhardt For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A book for anyone who wants to know how biases are formed, how they manifest and even how our brains process them There are examples, even from the authors own life, and studies that show how biases are used in everyday life Statistics to back up the authors assertions, and experiments that prove the validity of the statistics How to counter these biases, by education, training in empathy for professionals like the police, where they are daily confronted with situations that could prove deadl A book for anyone who wants to know how biases are formed, how they manifest and even how our brains process them There are examples, even from the authors own life, and studies that show how biases are used in everyday life Statistics to back up the authors assertions, and experiments that prove the validity of the statistics How to counter these biases, by education, training in empathy for professionals like the police, where they are daily confronted with situations that could prove dea...One of the best books about implicit bias I ve ever read It s both personal and data based, warm and inviting where it needs to be and cold and honest in other parts I would recommend this to any organization or person or group who wants to understand how bias works and how it s ok it s not ...This is the kind of informative nonfiction that I like to see clearly written, incorporating broad statistics and study findings with concrete examples, correlating arguments to current or historical events, and the author s use of personal anecdotes or stories told to her to make the content of her work really connect on a personal level This is a really well executed book on implicit bias that threads the needle between acknowledging that implicit bias is something that we all inherit amp This is the kind of informative nonfiction that I like to see clearly written, incorporating broad statistics and study findings with concrete examples, correlating arguments to current or historical events, and the author s use of personal anecdotes or stories told to her to make the content of her work really connect on a personal level This is a really well executed book on implicit bias that thr...Some nonfiction presents new Ideas and some nonfiction is well written and this book has both traits Eberhardt whose work I was unaware until I heard her interviewed on a youtube channel is a cognitive scientist whose research area is implicit biases that we carry with us I had heard of other studies of implicit bias but Eberhardt s gift is taking this factoid that many stored away in our science trivia collection and shows its salience in reality and why it is muchthan a factoid but a Some nonfiction presents new Ideas and some nonfiction is well written and this book has both traits Eberhardt whose work I was unaware until I heard her interviewed on a youtube channel is a cognitive scientist whose research area is implicit biases that we carry with us I had heard of other studies of implicit bias but Eberhardt s gift is taking this factoid that many stored away in our science trivia collection and shows its salience in reality and why it is muchthan a factoid but a lense to look at everything in our society from police profiling, and arrests, to education, to workplace matters So many vital areas where pretending we are colorblind makes the problems worse She uses down to earth and charged examples to get her point across that our implicit bi...It is alarming how much of our biases are subconsciously ingrained in us not only from birth, but from our culture as well While not exactly groundbreaking, this book has a lot of heart and helps lay out the facts and statistics.I hope by becomingaware of ingrained biases we all can push ...We do not have to be racist to be biased A relevant, heart breaking, emotionally draining look at the heart of America s racial tensions, social inequality, confirmation bias, racial profiling, and the attitudes that are inherently ours.Social judgements affect both how we see those around us and how we perceive ourselves.Confirmation bias is the mechanism the tool allowing inaccurate beliefs to manifest and persist just as destructive as stereotypes.Racial bias leads to the capacity to do har We do not have to be racist to be biased A relevant, heart breaking, emotionally draining look at the heart of America s racial tensions, social inequality, confirmation bias, racial profiling, and the attitudes that are inherently ours.Social judgements affect both how we see those around us and how we perceive ourselves.Confirmation bias is the mechanism the tool allowing inaccurate beliefs to manifest and persist just as destructive as stereotypes.Racial bias leads to the capacity to do harm It tears away at the very fabric, it pulls the perception of furtive movemen...Read with GR group Nonfiction Book Club Why a paltry 3 stars This book was not written with someone with the awareness I have I amthan familiar with the concept of in grouping out group I am a woman of indeterminate ethnicity....This book started off great It was fresh and thought provoking but it seemed as it neared the end to remain focused on one race and not the sense of general bias like the first half I am a nerd for all the studies and test results though so I remained pretty giddy throughout I loved the analogies so much so I worked them into conversations with friends and family during the week I was reading this I loved the example that a bias is actually a proven mental shortcoming Our brains focus on wh This book started off great It was fresh and thought provoking but it seemed as it neared the end to remain focused on one race and not the sense of general bias like the first half I am a nerd for all the studies and test results though so I remained pretty giddy throughout I loved the analogies so much so I worked them into conversations with...I have to say that I see where the writer is going come from here and I agree The idea here is that we have certain societal Biases that we carry with us and are generally unaware of I agree this is true However the writer I believe needs to stop and possibl...A very well written book, but my moderate rating is only because it was not the book that I thought it was going to be I was hoping forof an analysis of why we are implicitly biased and how we might try to overcome that, but this book wasof a chronicle of examples of implicit bias And that s an excellent subject, albeit incredibly and overwhelmingly sad and frustrating I was just looking for some answers and help as to how we can start to work on our own implicit biases, and I A very well written book, but my moderate rating is only because it was not the book that I thought it was going to be I was hoping forof an analysis of why we are implicitly biased and how we might try to overcome that, but this book wasof a chronicle of examples of...

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
  • English
  • 27 May 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 350 pages
  • Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do