Implicit and Explicit Biases with Dr. Jordan Axt

In Episode 41 we are joined by Dr. Jordan Axt, director of the McGill Intergroup Cognition Lab to talk about the application of social cognitive processes in an intergroup context. Jordan shares with us how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are shaped by the distinction between “us” and “them,” and how these are manifest implicitly and explicitly. What are implicit and explicit biases and how do they differ? How do scientists measure implicit and explicit bias? What does the implicit and explicit bias look like outside of the laboratory and how are physically attractive individuals disproportionally benefited by bias? All this and much more in Implicit and Explicit Biases with Dr. Jordan Axt!ReferencesAxt, J. R., Nguyen, H., & Nosek, B. A. (2018). The judgment bias task: A flexible method for assessing individual differences in social judgment biases. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 337-355. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.02.011Axt, J. R., Casola, G., & Nosek, B. A. (2019). Reducing social judgment biases may require identifying the potential source of bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(8), 1232-1251. doi:10.1177/0146167218814003Kurdi, B., Seitchik, A. E., Axt, J. R., Carroll, T. J., Karapetyan, A., Kaushik, N., . . . Banaji, M. R. (2019). Relationship between the implicit association test and intergroup behavior: A meta-analysis. The American Psychologist, 74(5), 569-586. doi:10.1037/amp0000364