More Like this

1. Facial Stereotype Bias Is Mitigated by Training

   https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620972550  

   Chua, Kao-Wei; Freeman, Jonathan_B (November 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science)

   People automatically infer others’ personality (e.g., trustworthiness) based on facial appearance, and such facial stereotype biases predict real-world consequences across political, legal, and business domains. The present research tested whether these biases can be mitigated through counterstereotype training aimed at reconfiguring the associations between specific facial appearances and social traits. Across six studies and a replication, a behavioral counterstereotype training consistently reduced or eliminated facial stereotype biases for White male faces in the context of economic trust games, hiring decisions, and even automatic evaluations assessed via evaluative priming. Together, the results demonstrate a fundamental malleability in facial stereotyping related to trustworthiness, with a minimal training able to mitigate the tendency to activate and apply long-held, highly automatized facial stereotypes. These findings suggest that face impressions are more flexible than typically appreciated, and they provide a potential inroad toward combating our ingrained biases based on facial appearance. 

   more » « less
2. Inductive Bias is in the Eye of the Beholder

   Wilson, Michael; Frank, Robert (December 2023, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Benchmarking Generalization (GenBench), EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics)
3. Inductive Bias Is in the Eye of the Beholder

   https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.genbench-1.12  

   Wilson, Michael; Frank, Robert (December 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics)
4. Is discrimination widespread? Testing assumptions about bias on a university campus.

   https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000983  

   Campbell, Mitchell R.; Brauer, Markus (April 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General)
5. A spatial bias toward highly rewarded locations is associated with awareness.

   https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000749  

   Sisk, Caitlin A.; Remington, Roger W.; Jiang, Yuhong V. (April 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition)