{"id":5830,"date":"2009-01-12T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:38:38","slug":"internalized-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/12\/internalized-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Internalized Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social psychologists have devised a genuis way to measure our implicit biases; that is, they have found a way to tap into those biases that we hold unconsciously and\/or know better than to reveal in mixed company.\u00a0 You can learn all about it and take all kinds of tests to reveal your own biases <a href=\"https:\/\/implicit.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One thing these investigations have revealed is that many of us internalize biases against the groups we belong to.\u00a0 So, women can be sexist and people of color can be racist.\u00a0 Even if people consciously reject these biases, they often sink in anyway and lead to a kind of self-dislike.<\/p>\n<p>Someone sent in a postcard to <a href=\"http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/sunday-secrets_09.html\" target=\"_blank\">PostSecret<\/a> this week that illustrates just this phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/racist.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5832\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/racist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social psychologists have devised a genuis way to measure our implicit biases; that is, they have found a way to tap into those biases that we hold unconsciously and\/or know better than to reveal in mixed company.\u00a0 You can learn all about it and take all kinds of tests to reveal your own biases here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,285,37],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30458,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/30458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}