Overcoming Bias Habits

An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-41041-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

An action-oriented, scientifically tested guide to confronting and overcoming bias.

Most anti-bias trainings offer empty words rather than effective, practical solutions. In this hopeful and accessible guide, scientist-practitioner William T. L. Cox breaks down the science behind stereotypes, bias, and the habits we form that perpetuate these cognitive traps in daily life. He highlights lessons from his empirically backed anti-bias training and provides actionable tools for preventing bias and speaking out in favor of diversity.

Overcoming Bias Habits inspires us to be agents of change by making meaningful transformations in our behaviors and maintaining them over time. Focusing on individuals and our habits, however, does not mean ignoring the systems and institutions that perpetuate discrimination: Doing the work for ourselves empowers us to also hold institutions accountable and to effect genuine, lasting change in our schools, workplaces, and communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, William T. L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Unit One. The Science and Practice of Meaningful Change
Introducing Our Journey: Bias Habits and Diverse Joy
1. Bias Habits and How to Break Them

Unit Two. Awareness Skills: Bias Habits to Disrupt
2. Bias Habit Building Blocks: Expectations and Emotions
3. Bias Habits That Create Disparities
4. Bias Habits That Perpetuate Cognitive Inertia

Unit Three. Tools to Disrupt Bias Habits and Cultivate Diverse Joy
5. Favor Mindfulness over Blunt, Ineffective Tools
6. Tools to Retrain Your Mind
7. Tools to Broaden Your Input
8. Tools to Prevent Bias
9. Tools for Speaking Up

Unit Four. Be an Agent of Personal and Social Change
10. It’s Up to Us to Build a Better World

References

Über Autor(innen)

William T. L. Cox, PhD, is an award-winning scientist-practitioner with more than twenty years' experience testing bias-reduction methods. He is founder and CEO of the nonprofit Inequity Agents of Change and cohost of the Diverse Joy podcast.