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 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 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 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 is a discussion about the importance of a positive & inclusive work environment.
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
In this fascinating talk from neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, he shares his cutting-edge research into the biology that drives our worst and best behaviors.
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.
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 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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
Territory acknowledgment is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This is often done at the beginning of ceremonies, lectures, or any public event. It can be a subtle way to recognize the history of colonialism and a need for change in settler-colonial societies. Learn more.
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.
