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Knowledge-Based Interventions Are More Likely To Reduce Legal Disparities Than Are Implicit Bias Interventions, Patrick S. Forscher, Patricia G. Devine

Psychological Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We should note at the outset that this chapter is different from most others in this volume. Neither author is an expert of the law, legal proceedings, or the criminal justice system more generally. Instead, we are both psychological scientists who specialize in race and unintentional forms of bias. Our goal in this chapter is to review the extant work on implicit bias and interventions to change implicit bias. Though the work in this area is ever burgeoning, the evidence regarding the effectiveness of implicit bias interventions is rather mixed and the goals for the specific research efforts are quite …