Why have I made such an investment in The Implicit Biases Campaign? I’m frustrated that scientifically-validated knowledge with such relevance to our everyday lives remains isolated in academia and elite circles. This has dawned upon me in the years since I graduated from Cornell University and inspired me to continue my education: I am entering a PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. Marybeth Gasman is my advisor.
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In the United States, we are in dire need of dialogue and increased awareness about the existence and dangers of implicit biases.
Research shows that whites, when hooked up to brain scan monitors and shown subliminal images of black men (too quickly for the conscious mind to even process what it saw), show a dramatic surge of activity in the part of the brain that reacts to fear and anxiety. Other studies have shown that racially-skewed news media (there is research indicating that local newscasts overrepresent blacks as criminals, relative to their actual share of total crime, and overrepresent whites as victims, relative to their share of victimization) have a direct relationship to widespread negative perceptions of black people. A substantial percentage of anti-black racial hostility can be directly traced to media imagery, even after all other factors are considered.
Our shared justice as Americans must manifest in the way we view and interact with each other in our daily lives. This is the vision of The Implicit Biases Campaign, and every single one of us has the responsibility to live it.
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