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 |
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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
Videos
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
Films & Documentaries
Resources, Tools, and Assessments
Unconscious bias is an unrecognized mental process or categorization that is intimately tied to how the human brain processes information, specifically what neuroscience experts call “cognitive heuristics”. The fact is that if we have a brain, we have bias. Take the test.
Key facets of identity — like gender, social class, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion, and disability — play prominent roles in the media we consume and create, determining how we see, understand, and experience the world and those we encounter in it. Learn more.
Every organization has a “Human Delta,” representing the gap between its people, perceptions and processes. This gap may stem from unclear roles, mismatched responsibilities, or the individual’s capacity to fulfill their job. Check yours here.
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet. Take the test.
The Missing Piece is a collaborative, problem-solving activity designed for coaches and consultants to use with clients. Learn more.
Use this map to observe the level and change in racial residential segregation across the United States. You can use this tool to see how segregated your community is, and you can learn more about the project and how to use the tool here.
AllSides Media is a site for mitigating bias in news media. It highlights the bias in traditional news sources so you can better understand and form your own opinions. Check it out.
Deal Me In is ideally facilitated as a paired exercise. Each person selects a card that contains an inclusive behavior or action. The pair identifies a time and date to share with one another the lessons learned from completing the action. Learn more.
Watch these videos of nine American citizens describe their struggle to belong in a nation that both embraces and rejects them. Then, prepare to write your own diversity story. Watch here.
The Belonging Assessment is a collection of 20 statements that allow you to self-reflect on how you see yourself and others at work. The results are intended to spark conversations on the Four Cornerstones of Belonging: Identity, Agency, Power & Flow. These are the foundational building blocks for a workplace culture of Belonging. Take the assessment now.