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Over the past several decades, the term implicit bias has moved from the relative obscurity of academia into everyday usage.

The concept is also at the center of recent debates over how

society should think about and teach about racism, prejudice, and discrimination.

The idea that we all have biases that operate below the level of our conscious thought

may be uncomfortable, but decades of research have found that many people who would never consciously agree with

prejudice statements about black people, LGBTQ people or women, for example, can nonetheless

harbor implicit biases toward these groups and others.

So what is implicit bias and where does it come from? What's the connection between

implicit bias and prejudice? How are they different and how are they connected? How do implicit

biases influence our behavior? Is it possible to unlearn or overcome our biases? Does educating

people about implicit bias help to reduce it and as a society, are we shedding any of our biases? Do they remain as strong as ever?

Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the connections between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills.

Our guest today is Dr. Mazarin Banaji.

Dr. Benaji is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a pioneer in researching implicit

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