SPOKANE, Wash. – A two-part training designed to help police officers recognize their implicit bias, revealed some behavior improvement and lowered citizen discrimination complaints in a controlled ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.

In recent years, the nation has made efforts to raise awareness of implicit bias in employment and across industry groups. The real estate industry has seen states, such as California and New York, ...

Let’s imagine you are glucose intolerant. We have two psychological tests that we want to use to predict the choice that you will make when you are presented with two items of food. One is the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The Implicit Association Test works by asking participants to categorize groups of people with "good" words like "nice" or "laughter" and "bad" words like "nasty" or "rotten." Its results are ...

Racial discrimination and political division have no place in medicine. Yet Michigan’s government has injected them into healthcare by forcing every medical professional in the state to undertake ...

The Implicit Association Test works by asking participants to categorize groups of people with “good” words like “nice” or “laughter” and “bad” words like “nasty” or “rotten.” Its results are ...