We want to create organizations that are inclusive and culturally competent toward all people no matter what their identities or backgrounds. Yet, we know that there are implicit and unconscious biases that gets in the way of our acting in congruence with our beliefs and values. Learn the science of cognitive biases we all have and what we can do to mitigate them.

1. Kiva
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Seattle Girls’ School
Implicit and Unconscious Bias:
Bridging the Distance Between
Professed Values and Daily Behaviors
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2. About Seattle Girls’ School
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3. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Goals for the Day
Implicit and Unconscious Bias
Bias in Everyday Life
Bias in Our Field
So What? Now What?

4. About Seattle Girls’ School
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The Human Brain
How much of what you see, hear, feel,
experience, etc. are you aware of?
How much of what you do is under
conscious control?
How accurate is your judgment of what
you see, hear, feel, experience, etc.?
How fair minded are you?

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“…the human mind takes in 11 million
bits of information every minute. But is
consciously aware of only 40.”
Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia
And since your brain cannot process 11
million bits of information a minute, it
takes mental shortcuts
The Human Brain

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Mental Shortcuts Example
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
Aodccrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it dnsoe't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Azmanig huh?

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Mental Shortcuts Example

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Our Limited Brain

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Our Limited Brain
#1 #2 #3
SLB CFLTK CFLTK
SPRND HLMG CFLTK
SLB SPRND SLB
SPRND HLMG CFLTK

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Our Limited Brain
#1 #2 #3
GREEN BLUE GREEN
RED YELLOW YELLOW
PURPLE BLUE RED
GREEN RED PURPLE

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Our Limited Brain
#1 #2 #3
RED GREEN YELLOW
BLUE GREEN BROWN
RED YELLOW BLUE
BROWN BROWN BLUE

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Our Assuming Brain

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Our Assuming Brain

14. Our Assuming Brain
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Study by Daniel Levin and Mahzarin Banaji

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Our Biased Brain

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Our Biased Brain

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Our Biased Brain

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Our Biased Brain

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30. Implicit Bias
 An Implicit Bias is a preference for OR against a
person or group of people that operate at the
subconscious level. We are NOT aware that we
have them.
 Triggered automatically through rapid
association of people/groups/objects and our
attitudes AND stereotypes about them.
 Run contrary to our stated beliefs and attitudes.
We can say that we believe in equity (and truly
believe it). But then behave in ways that are
biased and discriminatory.
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31. Implicit Association Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
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32. Process Break
What is interesting,
surprising, or thought
provoking about what you
have learned so far?
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33. About Seattle Girls’ School
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34. Implicit Bias in Daily Life
 Black Facial Features Prison Sentences
 Asians in Leadership
 Women in Leadership
 Black Children as Older and Less Innocent
 Resume Studies
 Weight and Laziness
 Assumption of Disability in Multiple Domains
 Linguistic Diversity as Intellectual Deficit
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35. Implicit Bias in Our Environment
 Who is a desired candidate?
 What is a “good partnership” potential?
 Who or what is “deserving”?
 Who thrives and who leaves?
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36. Process Break
What are the
unconscious and implicit
biases that manifest and
affect individuals in your
environment?
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37. What Can We Do About It?
 Perspective Taking
 Increased, Meaningful, Inter-Group
Contact
 Stereotype Replacement
 Improvement of Decision Making
 Counting and Systematizing
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38. What Can We Do About It?
http://ncase.me/polygons/
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39. Process Break
What are strategies you
can employ to lessen
occasions of assumptions
and differing treatment?
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40. Moving from Professed Values
to Lived Values
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41. Final Questions or Comments?
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42. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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