Infusing science, practical skills, and joy into diversity discussions!
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In each episode, Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson share what is bringing them joy, talk about a diversity topic, share stories, teach a bias habit-breaking skill, and give a media recommendation of something that brings them joy. Their goal is jointly to provide entertainment and education, and most of all, to infuse joy into conversations around diversity.
Every episode also exists as a standalone educational video that you can find on YouTube, or through our website at DiverseJoy.com.
Diverse Joy is hosted by Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson, produced by Eric Roman Beining, with music by @JayArner. New episodes release the first Wednesday of each month. To subscribe to the video podcast, follow @BiasHabit on YouTube. To subscribe to the audio-only podcast, search for it wherever you get podcasts, or go to DiverseJoy.com.
The development and Season 1 Diverse Joy was sponsored in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R35GM128888. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Production is also supported by donations to our nonprofit, Inequity Agents of Change. Learn more at BiasHabit.com.
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Infusing science, practical skills, and joy into diversity discussions!
Follow @DiverseJoy on social media!
In each episode, Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson share what is bringing them joy, talk about a diversity topic, share stories, teach a bias habit-breaking skill, and give a media recommendation of something that brings them joy. Their goal is jointly to provide entertainment and education, and most of all, to infuse joy into conversations around diversity.
Every episode also exists as a standalone educational video that you can find on YouTube, or through our website at DiverseJoy.com.
Diverse Joy is hosted by Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson, produced by Eric Roman Beining, with music by @JayArner. New episodes release the first Wednesday of each month. To subscribe to the video podcast, follow @BiasHabit on YouTube. To subscribe to the audio-only podcast, search for it wherever you get podcasts, or go to DiverseJoy.com.
The development and Season 1 Diverse Joy was sponsored in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R35GM128888. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Production is also supported by donations to our nonprofit, Inequity Agents of Change. Learn more at BiasHabit.com.
S2E08: Unpacking the Science and Controversy around "Implicit Bias"
Diverse Joy
1 hour 16 minutes 54 seconds
8 months ago
S2E08: Unpacking the Science and Controversy around "Implicit Bias"
March is Disneybound* month, something Amber enjoys every year, so for this month’s episode, we got dressed up as Chip (Will) and Dale (Amber) from Disney’s Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers!What’s bringing us joy this time? Will shares about how much joy cosplay brings to him, and getting to inhabit a character who’s someone other than himself - even if it’s a villain. And Amber talks about the joy she got from taking some of the high schoolers she mentors to Atlanta to tour HBCUs and helping them realize they could go to those types of schools. This episode’s main discussion focuses understanding what implicit bias is, and the controversy around the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and the ways in which it gets used without proper context and how that can create bad data (and how it negatively affects meta analyses of stereotyping and bias research). The discussion topic leads into the audience question where Will explains terminology variations regarding unintentional bias versus unconscious bias vs implicit bias (and how and why he prefers “unintentional bias” but for our purposes, they’re essentially the same thing).This episode’s habit-breaking skill is to Be Mindful of Your Input, because your social environment and the media all influence how you think, particularly related to marginalized or stereotyped groups. This discussion carries us into story time, where Will relates a story about a very young White boy whose only regular exposure to Black folks was on the TV show COPS and how that lead to an embarrassing situation; and Amber shares about a time she accidentally assumed a name that was difficult for her to pronounce belonged to the only Latin intern in her group, but she acknowledged the mistake and explained how it happened - rather than trying to ignore the error - and the intern graciously understood and forgave her. The episode wraps up with Amber’s joyful recommendation of Trixie Motel the motel (and then home) makeover show staring Trixie Mattel! *Disneybounding: If you are bound for (traveling to) a Disney Parks property, Disney does not allow adults in costumes (unless it’s a special event), so fans will create versions of Disney character outfits using “everyday clothes” rather than costumes, hence Disneybounding.
Diverse Joy
Infusing science, practical skills, and joy into diversity discussions!
Follow @DiverseJoy on social media!
In each episode, Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson share what is bringing them joy, talk about a diversity topic, share stories, teach a bias habit-breaking skill, and give a media recommendation of something that brings them joy. Their goal is jointly to provide entertainment and education, and most of all, to infuse joy into conversations around diversity.
Every episode also exists as a standalone educational video that you can find on YouTube, or through our website at DiverseJoy.com.
Diverse Joy is hosted by Dr. William T. L. Cox and Dr. Amber Nelson, produced by Eric Roman Beining, with music by @JayArner. New episodes release the first Wednesday of each month. To subscribe to the video podcast, follow @BiasHabit on YouTube. To subscribe to the audio-only podcast, search for it wherever you get podcasts, or go to DiverseJoy.com.
The development and Season 1 Diverse Joy was sponsored in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R35GM128888. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Production is also supported by donations to our nonprofit, Inequity Agents of Change. Learn more at BiasHabit.com.