Category: Bias

In the play Medea, the historical context effects and deepens the understanding of culture, identity, and community. During this period women had no place in society except in the home taking care of family and being looked down at all the time. The Athenian society expected women to submit to their husbands having no privileges…

Introduction Devine and Colleagues (2012) successfully reduced individuals’ implicit race bias by developing a 12-week “prejudice habit-breaking intervention”. The intervention aimed to reduce the characteristics that underlie implicit race bias which regards negative, automatic, and unintentional prejudiced beliefs about race. This research is very important as unintentional prejudices towards Black people are prevalent among White…

Everywhere we go, all humans carry with them personal biases. Whether those biases be against a particular race, sexuality, or gender, or in favor of one or all of those things, they are still there. These biases come from where we were raised and the way we were raised. These environments range from family values…

It is natural It is unintended It can affect decisions It can be mitigated The surgeons dilemma, multiple mentions of man, boy his, all male orientated, and then a surgeon which historically has been a male dominated profession, all of which lead the mind away from the answer of the surgeon being the boy’s mother.…

Gender is an inevitable thing that people cannot change about themselves making it impossible to escape the cruel injustices that we face on a daily basis. Gender bias and discrimination exist all over the world not only United states. In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, she writes about a dystopian society called…

Life is a rollercoaster, oftentimes no one knows what is next for them. Numerous characters in To kill a Mockingbird feel the same. Even though it may not be as big of a problem for some, we need to become aware of our implicit biases and stereotypes. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and…

Bias affects people in so many different ways. Some of those ways include feeling unsafe, having missed opportunities in both employment and education, and physical problems down the road. First thing is first to figure out how discrimination and bias affects the life of others we must first understand what discrimination and Bias is and…

Capital punishment is a legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. Within the criminal justice system, Capital punishment has aroused controversy due to discrimination. Many death row cases involve those of color and people in poverty as the defendants. “All that time, I never met a rich person sitting on death row”…

In a lot of crime shows, especially the ones you watch non stop on netflix, The death penalty may seem like an unbiased, clean and quick process. In reality, it is administered unfairly, biased, takes many years to complete, and is slow and costly. You may think that only the absolute worst people receive the…

Are you guilty of making judgments of off initial appearance? Maybe it’s an unconscious bias, but this discrimination in a court case can cause the defendants an undeserved sentence or in some cases death! 4% of death row inmates are likely innocent and over 1,500 people have died being wrongfully executed. Systemic Racism and Implicit…