Beth A Slagle

Beth A Slagle

June 28, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Implicit Bias: The Best Ways to Combat It

We all understand what explicit biases aremdash;they are the biases that we have that we know about. They are conscious and largely controllable. Implicit bias, unlike explicit bias, is more complex and refers to our attitudes or stereotypes that we have about a person or a group but that reside in our subconscious. These biases affect the way we act and react, but all in an unconscious manner.

By Beth A. Slagle

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