Mahzarin R. Banaji - Outsmarting Human Minds

Mazarine Banaji, an experimental psychologist at Harvard, discusses the discovery of implicit cognition and its implications. She shares personal experiences of implicit bias, highlighting the disparity between conscious beliefs and unconscious associations. The video explores whether implicit attitudes can change, presenting research showing a reduction in biases over a decade, particularly in sexuality and race. Despite these positive trends, some biases, like those against the elderly, remain unchanged. The video concludes with encouraging data and future research questions on why some biases change more than others.

What trends in bias have been observed over the 10-year period discussed?

Why does the speaker find the data on changing biases encouraging?

What questions does the speaker raise about the lack of change in certain biases?