Quote:It's an uncomfortable truth but scientists say most people have an ingrained racial bias.

Quote:Racism is an issue that still pervades many societies.

Quote:What are implicit and explicit stereotypes ?

Stereotypes are the belief that most members of a group have some characteristic.

Some examples of stereotypes are the belief that women are nurturing or the belief that police officers like donuts.

An explicit stereotype is the kind that you deliberately think about and report.

An implicit stereotype is one that occurs outside of conscious awareness and control.

Even if you say that men and women are equally good at math, it is possible that you associate math with men without knowing it.

In this case we would say that you have an implicit math-men stereotype.

• [li] To establish an implicit bias, researchers ask participants to respond quickly to black and white faces paired with positive or negative words[/li]
  

• [li] An implicit bias is deduced if participants assign positive attributes more quickly to white faces and negative attributes to black faces[/li]
  

• [li] Harvard University's implicit association test indicates(click ) :most Americans have an automatic preference for white over black faces[/li]