Agents of Change: Empowering People to Break the Bias Habit

151 Speedway Boulevard,Bristol TN 37620

20 October, 2022

Description

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Cox and his colleagues have developed and experimentally tested the bias habit-breaking intervention, which Dr. Cox will present in this session. He and his work have been featured several times on NPR and WPR, and have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Vanity Fair, and other major outlets. This training: equips attendees with a deeper understanding of ways that race bias, gender bias, or other intergroup biases can seep into judgments and behavior unintentionally, andempowers people to reduce the influence of those biases by teaching a set of concrete evidence-based tools for reducing biases and creating inclusion.The bias habit-breaking intervention was the first, and remains the only intervention that has been shown experimentally to produce long-term reductions in bias and increases in inclusion and equity. In contrast to many diversity or bias trainings that are neither evidence-based nor experimentally tested, the habit-breaking intervention’s effectiveness has been rigorously demonstrated in many randomized-controlled experiments. This training empowers people to become impactful, autonomous agents of change, both within their own minds and behavior and in the social institutions they inhabit.