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Blindspot Hidden Biases of Good People

Mahzarin R. Banaji

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”— I know my own mind.

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Hidden Brain

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Hidden Brain

Mazarin Banaji, a psychologist at Harvard University, is co-author of the book 'Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.'

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Mazarin Banaji is a psychologist at Harvard University. Along with Toni Greenwald, she's the author of Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.

— Episode: Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2

Episode: Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2

Mazarin Banaji, a psychologist at Harvard University, is co-author of the book 'Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.'

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Mazarin Banaji is a psychologist at Harvard University. Along with Toni Greenwald, she's the author of Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.

Episode: Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2

The book was mentioned in the context of Mazarin Banaji's work on implicit biases and how good people can still hold subconscious prejudices.

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Mazarin Banaji is a psychologist at Harvard University. Along with Toni Greenwald, she's the author of Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.

On Being with Krista Tippett

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On Being with Krista Tippett

The book explores implicit biases and how they affect our judgments and actions, even if we consider ourselves 'good people'. It was mentioned multiple times as a key work in the field of implicit bias and is used as a basis for much of the discussion.

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She's the co-author of Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.

— Episode: Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Differen...

Episode: Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking...

The book explores implicit biases and how they affect our judgments and actions, even if we consider ourselves 'good people'. It was mentioned multiple times as a key work in the field of implicit bias and is used as a basis for much of the discussion.

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She's the co-author of Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People.

The title of the book therefore has been Blindspot, Hidden Biases of Good People. And the good people is extremely important to me.

In the book, we report on a little riddle which many people now have heard.

Episode: [Unedited] Mahzarin Banaji with Krista Tippett

The book explores implicit biases in individuals, highlighting that even those with good intentions exhibit unconscious biases. A test included in the book allows readers to experience their own biases firsthand, illustrating how these biases affect decisions.

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The title of the book, therefore, has been Blindspot, hidden biases of good people. And the good people is extremely important to me.

In the book, we report on a little riddle which many people now have heard. It was originally a riddle printed in Reader's Digest, I believe, but it also appeared in the book because everybody's kind of knows this riddle.

There's a little test, a grid, really I think in the preface into your book Blindspot, the first page where you actually are able as the reader in less than a minute to have this experience of seeing something on a page, moving the picture so the part of the picture disappears and experiencing that your brain fills in the blank with what it expected to see there.

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