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Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help.

Daphna OysermanAmabel Youngbin Jeon
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Culture provides people with rich, detailed, implicit, and explicit knowledge about associations (what goes together) and contingencies (how situations are likely to unfold). These culture-based expectations allow people to get through their days without much systematic reasoning. Experimental designs that unpack these situated effects of culture on thinking, feeling, and doing can advance bias research and direct policy and intervention.
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