Best Practices
- Increase awareness about the prevalence of implicit bias by increasing your exposure to the research and patterns of biased behaviors to interrupt biased behaviors
- Take Implicit Association Test on the Project Implicit® website
- Participate in implicit bias workshops and/or trainings, such as Implicit Bias Trainings offered by OEDI
- Engage in dialogue with co-workers to determine if patterns of implicit bias are present in your division and workspace
- Strengthen your ability to differentiate between faces and unique characteristics which will decrease implicit bias
- Practice interrupting your personal assumptions and take the perspective of someone different from yourself
- Increase Intergroup Contact. Create authentic relationships with individuals different from yourself
- Seek out opportunities for intentional interaction with individuals who possess equal status to share common goals
- Standardize interview questions to ensure a core list of questions are asked to all candidates interviewing for a vacant position
- Implement inclusive an equitable hiring practices within your institutions hiring process.
More information: "Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions," (Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012)