our hidden bias

Wei Wei Jeang

Convergence of Bias and Reason –

How to Recognize and React to Implicit Bias

What is Hidden Bias?

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•Unconscious shortcuts that allow us to draw quick general conclusions about our environment and people around us

•Hidden even from ourselves

•Perception and interpretation

•Anchoring



•Actions at odds with intent

•Stress, distraction, time pressure

•Rationalize or justification



•Part of our evolutionary past?

•Friend or foe?

•Good or bad?

•Different or unfamiliar signals danger



Each one of us have HIDDEN BIASES!!!

Having HIDDEN BIASES doesn’t make

us automatically “bad”

It’s bad if we don’t do something about it



•Swimming with/against steady current

•Auto-pilot analogy


How Do We Acquire Hidden Biases?

•Early in life

•Exposure to ideas and images

•Peers

•Parents

•Media

•Toys



Black or White?

Women in the Media


Hillary Has The Blues:

Which Hue Did Clinton Wear Best

This Week? RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion

•Insidious – exterior

•Eye contact

•Posture

•Facial expression

•Verbal expression

•Warm/cold reception


When Hidden Bias is Unchecked

•Insidious - interior

•Immediate “connection”

•“Hit it off”

•“good fit”

• A younger self




•Pervasive and Insidious

•Client relationship and service

•Case and project assignment

•Recruitment and hiring

•Promotion, talent management, succession planning

•Performance evaluation and compensation

•Mentoring & sponsorship


What are Examples of Hidden Bias?

•School children as young as 3

•Man and woman in leadership position

•Transgender man and woman


What are Examples of Hidden Bias?

•Resume intake & Hiring

•Academic guidance

•Self-perception

•Selecting Leaders


So What?

•Small and cumulative inequities



So What?

So What?

•Deadly consequences

•Economic decisions


How Do We Counter the Effects of Hidden Bias?

•Self-examination

•Self-monitoring

•Bring to light when it happens

•Educate others

•Respect and value differences


How Do We Counter the Effects of Hidden Bias?

•Double check our perceptions, choices, and actions

•Establish protocols and procedures to minimize bias

•Be the one who sits with the new kid in the cafeteria


Resources

• Implicit Association Tests

•Southern Poverty Law Center

•www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-bias

• The Hidden Brain

•By Shankar Vedantam

• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

•By Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

• Why So Slow?

•By Virginia Valian


Thank You!

Wei Wei Jeang

Andrews Kurth LLP

1717 Main Street, Suite 3700

Dallas, Texas 75201

214.659.4688

[email protected]


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