Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhDReseñas

3.5 This jumped around a bit but was easy to read and accessible. It would be particularly good for readers who are unfamiliar with unconscious bias including how it affects criminal justice.

Good book about bias, mostly about racial bias. Author is good at seeing things from various perspectives, she also inserted a lot of personal anecdotes that showed a lot of how complex situations can be.

Praised by Bryan Stevenson and (then) Senator Kamala Harris

Started slowly but ended with some well-defined conclusions.

Eberhardt, a social psychologist from Stanford University, has written an accessible book on implicit/racial bias. What she does brilliantly is to back up her statements with data and research that cannot be denied. Implicit bias affects every single person. She interweaves personal vignettes and the lived experiences of others to demonstrate the powerful effect of bias. You may also want to take the Harvard Implicit Bias test at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html to see where your bias is on a continuum.½

This is a well written and interesting examination of how unconscious bias changes the way that we interact with many things in the world. The author seems to suggest that by being more aware of the natural human tendency toward bias, we can mitigate how much it changes our thinking, and I hope that by further educating myself this will be true.

A book for anyone who wants to know how biased are formed, how they manifest and even how our brains process them. There are examples, even from the authors own life, and studies that show how biases are used in everyday life. Statistics to back up the authors assertions, and experiments that prove the validity of the statistics. How to counter these biases, by education, training in empathy for professionals like the police, where they are daily confronted with situations that could prove deadly.

I was raised in Chicago and was well aware of much that was written within. There were places we were told to stay far away from for our own safety. Never really explained but the message was clear regardless. The author also takes us to the Charlottesville incident, so awful, so much hatred. How education is lacking in discussing past history. So many school children do not know about the Holocaust, don't know what Auschwitz was. Slavery glossed over. One can never forget what one never knew. To me this is a shameful admission.

"Our experiences in the world seep into our brain over time, and without our awareness they conspire to reshape the workings of our mind."

"The mistake we keep making-the mistake we all keep making-is in thinking our work is done. That whatever heroic effort we've made will keep moving us forward. That whatever progress we've seen will keep us from sliding back to burn and hiding Today scrolls."

&In truth, bias has been hiding it's time in an implicit world-in a place where we need not acknowledge it to ourselves or to others, even as it touches our soul and drives our behavior."

Powerful information on how bias shapes our world and the chilling impact on our African American citizens. What was missing for me was what I can do to personally check my own biases.

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