Resources

These resources will help expand your learning about unconscious bias, and focus on a wide array of topics from bias relating to race and gender, to institutional biases, and ways to mitigate bias in the workplace. To get you started, here are some answers to our most frequently asked questions.

Books

Cognitive Biases Social Biases Institutional Biases
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
Useful Delusions: The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
Shankar Vendatham
How to Be An Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein

Podcasts

Inclusive Leadership in a Virtual World Podcast

Inclusive Leadership in a Virtual World is a collection of 10-12 minute recordings featuring a wide range of illuminating leaders. Each highlights their unique approach to inclusive leadership and focus on how they are positive change agent in this virtual universe we find ourselves in.

Hidden brain

Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world.

 It’s the fearless conversations about race that you’ve been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, Code Switch tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between.

Videos

The Look - Driving Change Through Community Conversations

The Look is a conversation about bias in America from Proctor & Gamble that encourages people of all backgrounds to show up for one another in the quest to end all forms of bias.

Inclusion Starts with I 2

Inclusion Starts With I is a discussion about the importance of a positive & inclusive work environment.

That Little Voice

That Little Voice is a video reminding us that we’ve all experienced times when the voice in our head tells us to stay silent when we’ve seen or have been subjected to non-inclusive behavior. Instead of listening to that little voice, it’s time to find yours and use it to #SpeakUpForInclusion

Talks

Best and Worst

In this fascinating talk from neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, he shares his cutting-edge research into the biology that drives our worst and best behaviors.

Post Truth

In an insightful talk, researcher Alex Edmans explores how confirmation bias can lead you astray on social media, in politics and beyond, and offers three practical tools for finding evidence you can actually trust.

mercy of emotions

For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains, and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. 

Films & Documentaries

bias the film

bias is a film that challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. This film explores the relationship between cognitive and social biases; specifically focusing on the relationship between race and gender.

Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma is a documentary-drama hybrid that explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

13th, XIII

13th combines archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars. Director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

Resources, Tools, and Assessments