by lindaoppenheim | Nov 10, 2017 | Article
Gail Heyman, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, reports on research on reducing implicit race bias in very young children. She is not optimistic about preventing these biases from becoming permanent any more than changing those...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 25, 2017 | Opinion
In time for the beginning of a new school year, Laurie Calvert describes training that helped her see herself more objectively and the racist attitudes and behaviors she brought into her classroom. To read more, click here.
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 15, 2017 | Article
Washington Post reporters William Wan and Sarah Kaplan interviewed two scientists to ask about persistent racism. (Click here to read the article.) Main takeaways are: People absorb the biases in their cultures. ” ‘The truth is that unless parents actively...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 29, 2017 | Opinion
Autumn Allen describes her reaction to a news story about Charleena Lyles, a black woman who was shot by police inside her own home in front of her children after calling the police because she believed her house was being broken into as well as resistance to...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 17, 2016 | Opinion
Daniel A. Yudkin and Jay Van Bavel describe the experiments they ran and the conclusions they reached about implicit bias. “But implicit bias is not about bigotry per se. As new research from our laboratory suggests, implicit bias is grounded in a basic human...
