Last updated on June 14, 2023
I sometimes get inquiries from folks about implicit bias. I’ve written quite a bit about the subject. Here’s a guide on which articles you might want to read.
What’s new?
- 2023 Interview of Prof. Calvin Lai (Implicit Bias Scholar) | youtube
- 2021 What Judges Can Do about Implicit Bias
- 2022 Behavioral Realism about Color confusion
- 2023 Implicit Bias, Behavioral Realism, and the Purposeful Intent Doctrine
- 2023 Judicial Behavioral Realism about Implicit Bias
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National Academies Workshop, Little Things Matter (a Lot) (2021.03.22-23)
Quick and Dirty Primers
- TEDx talk “Immaculate Perception?”
- Implicit Bias Video Series I created while I was a Vice Chancellor at UCLA
- 2009 Implicit Bias Primer for Courts (brief primer written for the National Center for State Courts)
- ABA Video (10 mins) — Hidden Injustice: Bias on the Bench
- For stereotype threat, consider the (similar) amicus briefs I helped write in the Fisher v. Texas
affirmative action cases:- Fisher I amicus brief (2012)
- Fisher II amicus brief (2015)
Podcasts/Audio
- Interview with Dr. Dravon James, Everyday Peace on the Psychology of Social Bias (2021 02 08)
- Podcast with Jonathan and April Perkins on implicit bias 101 (2020 11 23)
- Podcast on implicit bias with Goodwin law firm Chairman (2019 03 29)
Detailed Introduction to the Science
- 2005 Trojan Horses of Race (first half of paper; this is the first major treatment in the law reviews)
- 2007 Implicit Social Cognition and Law (first half)
- 2010 Seeing through Colorblindness (first part)
- 2012 Implicit Bias in the Courtroom (first two parts, with application to criminal and civil cases)
Real world implications / experiments
- 2010 Are Ideal Litigators White? (showing correlation between implicit bias and evaluation of depositions)
Legal and Policy Implications
- Discrimination in evaluation
- 2010 Seeing through Colorblindness (after the science summary) (behavioral realism and four quadrants of possible response).
- Affirmative action / race consciousness
- 2006 Fair Measures (implications for “affirmative action”-like policies)
- 2023 Behavioral Realism about Color confusion
- Media Policy
- 2005 Trojan Horses of Race (second half of paper; mass media policy)
- 2012 Bits of Bias (implicit biases from media and cyberspace)
- Personal responsibility / culture
- 2011 New Cultural Defense (brief comment on chapter discussing whether implicit biases are “personal” or just “cultural”)
- 4 quadrants analysis — going beyond just the prejudice polygraph.
- 2012 Missing Quadrants (for a psychology audience)
- 2010 Seeing through Colorblindness (includes similar analysis, more for a legal audience)
- Courtroom: judges and juries
- Implications for Equal Protection / Intent Doctrine
Political Reactions
- 2017 My Book Review of Jonathan Kahn’s Race on the Brain (critique from the Left) solicited by and published in Science
- 2010 Implicit Bias and Pushback from Left (brief essay re resistance from the Left)
- 2010 Seeing through Colorblindness (sections discussing Right wing backlash)