Articles
- How to Think about “Implicit” Bias by Keith Payne, Laura Niemi, John M. Doris
Source: Scientific American | Date: March 27, 2018 | Length: 960 words
Amid a controversy, it’s important to remember that implicit bias is real—and it matters - Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein, and Don A. Moore
Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein, and Don A. Moore via McMaster Libraries [MacID required]
Source: Harvard Business Review, volume 80, issue 11, pp. 96-103 | Date: November 2002 | Length: 7 pages
The impacts of unconscious bias on business practices
Books
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Date: 2020 | Length: 348 pages
Location (Online): eBook via McMaster Libraries [MacID required]
Location (Print): THODE Library Bookstacks (1st floor) BF 575.P9 E34 2020 + Other Omni Libraries [click title to check status or request] + Hamilton Public Library [HPL card required]
From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society--in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Date: 2009 | Length: 368 pages
Location (Online): eBook via McMaster Libraries [MacID required]
Location (Print): HEALTH Sciences Library (Lower Level) BF 448 .A698P 2009 + Other Omni Libraries [click title to check status or request] + Hamilton Public Library [HPL card required]
Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we? In this book, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. Yet these misguided behaviours are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable--making us predictably irrational.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Date: 2013 | Length: 499 pages
Location (Print): MILLS Library (3rd floor), Innis Collection BF 441 .K33 2013 & HEALTH Sciences Library BF 441 .K12T 2013 + Other Omni Libraries [click title to check status or request] + Hamilton Public Library [HPL card required]
This book takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation--each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives--and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
The Undoing Project by Date: 2017 | Length: 362 pages
Location (Print): THODE Library Bookstacks QP 360.5 .L49 2017 + Other Omni Libraries [click title to check status or request] + Hamilton Public Library [HPL card required]
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield--both had important careers in the Israeli military--and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind.
Podcast
- Free Brian Williams
Source: Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell | Date: June 2018 | Length: 36:20
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.
In this episode ...
“Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft.” NBC news anchor Brian Williams told a war story on national television. It wasn’t true. But does that make him a liar? Gladwell asks why we insist that lapses of memory must also be lapses of character.
Videos
- 3 Kinds of Bias That Shape Your Worldview by J. Marshall Shepherd
Source: TED | Date: March 2018 | Length: 12:10
What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know -- and shares ideas for how we can replace them with something much more powerful: knowledge.
- Can Prejudice Ever Be a Good Thing? by Paul BloomSource: TED | Date: February 2014 | Length: 16:10
We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance. But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, prejudice is often natural, rational ... even moral. The key, says Bloom, is to understand how our own biases work -- so we can take control when they go wrong.
- Can We Protect AI From Our Biases? by Robin HauserSource: TED | Date: December 2017 | Length: 12:28
As humans we're inherently biased. Sometimes it's explicit and other times it's unconscious, but as we move forward with technology how do we keep our biases out of the algorithms we create? Documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser argues that we need to have a conversation about how AI should be governed and ask who is responsible for overseeing the ethical standards of these supercomputers. "We need to figure this out now," she says. "Because once skewed data gets into deep learning machines, it's very difficult to take it out."
- How Language Shapes The Way We Think by Lera BoroditskySource: TED | Date: November 2017 | Length: 14:12
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."
- How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them by Vernā MyersSource: TED | Date: December 2014 | Length: 17:40
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.
- The Person you Mean to Be by Dolly ChughSource: NYU Trailblazers | Date: April 26, 2019 | Length: 20:02
About the importance of noticing, where something that was not visible becomes visible. Unpacking implicit bias.
- Unconscious Bias by Stacey GordonSource: LinkedIn Learning | Date: May 2022 | Length: 28:36
In this course, learn how to identify and address your biases so you can make more thoughtful decisions, build relationships, and be an effective colleague in the modern workplace.
