To understand this last point, implicit bias (or implicit association) testing is considered to be the way in which implicit biases can be detected. The way this testing proceeds is to present a person with a number of words with some clearly identifiable valence (e.g., positive versus negat...
I also summarize evidence indicating that the activation of an implicit theory creates a motivated bias that privileges information that is consistent with the theory. Taken together, I suggest ways in which taking an implicit theories approach sheds new light on foundational social information ...
Shleifer (2005) proposes “enforcement theory,” arguing that government regulation is a trade-off between the costs of social disorder and dictatorship. Government regulation has many advantages in controlling disorder effectively. Government agencies could be more ready and effective, than courts, to ...
More generally, implicit bias is often referred to as unconscious associations. This is what could lead to so-calledstereotype threats; to attribute certain abilities and predicted behavior to generalized categories of people. For example, several studies have examined how different individuals judge a ...
a downstream impact on behavior in a similarly unconscious manner. From such a perspective, implicit bias is viewed in essence as a causal latent variable; a mental structure in the form of associations that affects upon behavior in an unconscious manner (De Houwer,2019). The IAT was partly ...
Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering a given question, with the question asked conditioned on the associated image. Even though the task of answering a question for a given image is fairly simple for humans, it is very difficult for a model to provide an accurate answer...