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The Nondiscriminating Heart: Lovingkindness Meditation Training Decreases Implicit Intergroup Bias - Background: Explicit vs. Implicit Biases

  • The article introduces two types of biases: explicit and implicit biases.
  • Explicit biases are attitudes that are conscious and deliberate. A person showing this type of bias is aware of his/her own affects and behavior toward a group or person. Explicit biases are commonly measured using self-reports.
  • Implicit biases are unconscious attitudes that can be activated automatically without the person being aware of them. Thus, these beliefs can unconsciously influence a person’s feelings and behavior. Implicit attitudes can be assessed using the response-latency methodology, which measures how fast the respondent of a survey answers a given question.
  • While it is relatively easy for one to control his/her explicit attitudes, implicit biases are much harder to change.

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Updated 2021-06-28

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