Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Introduction
- 2 Implicit Bias: What Is It?
- 3 Lessons from Two Decades of Project Implicit
- 4 Aversive Racism and Implicit Bias
- 5 Stretching the Limits of Science: Was the Implicit-Racism Debate a “Bridge Too Far” for Social Psychology?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
3 - Lessons from Two Decades of Project Implicit
from Section I - What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Introduction
- 2 Implicit Bias: What Is It?
- 3 Lessons from Two Decades of Project Implicit
- 4 Aversive Racism and Implicit Bias
- 5 Stretching the Limits of Science: Was the Implicit-Racism Debate a “Bridge Too Far” for Social Psychology?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
Summary
There are many reasons why the implicit bias construct took root in everyday conversation, but one of them is that millions of people have experienced the most commonly used measure of implicit bias – the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) at the Project Implicit websites. Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international research collaboration between behavioral scientists interested in implicit social cognition. The organization’s primary public contribution is its education websites (https://implicit.harvard.edu) where more than twenty-eight million IATs have been completed. This chapter provides an overview of Project Implicit and the contributions and challenges of more than twenty years of internet-based data collection on implicit attitudes and stereotypes. The first section describes Project Implicit’s history and organizational structure; next, some of the key insights gleaned from the data collected at the Project Implicit websites are reviewed. These include assessment of the pervasiveness and correlates of implicit bias, comparisons across time and by geographic area, and reactions to learning about one’s own implicit bias. Finally, we reflect on some of the challenges of being uniquely situated between academic researchers and the general public, and describe how changing scientific knowledge has changed scientific communication about implicit bias.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism , pp. 97 - 123Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025