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Below you will find links to various journal and newspaper articles, videos, and broadcasts related to the work done here at Project Implicit. This page will be updated periodically with current news clippings. Please note that some of the venues require a subscription, registration, or purchase to access their sites (marked with an *). These venues are not affiliated with Project Implicit. We provide these links as a courtesy to individuals interested in their content.

2009

• September 28, 2009. "Doctors often register unconscious bias against blacks, study finds"
  AMNews online (American Medical News). Kevin B. O'Reilly
  
  
• September 16, 2009. "Ill over racism in the healthcare debate"
  Mother Jones. Marian Wang
  
  
• September 16, 2009. "Just the Facts"
  National Review Online. John Derbyshire
  
  
• September 16, 2009. "Your baby is racist, and so are you (and so am I, so let's talk about it)"
  Chicagonow.com. Megan Cottrell
  
  
• August 31, 2009. "Me, biased? You bet, but how about you? Take the test"
  Gary Post Tribune. Jerry Davich
  
  
• August 20, 2009. "Many Doctors Shown to Have Subconscious Racial Attitudes"
  Health Behavior News Service. Glenda Fauntleroy
  
  
• August 4, 2009. "Mind tricks: Six ways to explore your brain"
  Ethiopian Review. Desta Bishu
  
  
• July 16, 2009. "UVA today: Unconscious stereotypes"
  WCAV.com.
  
  
• July 7, 2009. "How implicit stereotypes affect gender equity in science"
  European Research Headlines.
  
  
• June 25, 2009. "The Roots of Racism: What we don't know can hurt us"
  Newsweek. Raina Kelly
  
  
• June 23, 2009. "Study Associates Implicit Gender Stereotypes with Science/Math Achievement"
  ScienceMag.org. Alan Kotok
  
  
• June 23, 2009. "UVA study: Gender bias remains on sexes, science"
  Lynchburg News Advance. Rachana Dixit
  
  
• June 23, 2009. "We're all prejudiced and we need to admit it"
  PersonnelToday.com.Rob Moss
  
  
• June 23, 2009. "Citizens In 34 Countries Show Implicit Bias Linking Males More Than Females With Science"
  ScienceDaily.com.
  
  
• May 29, 2009. "Rogues, Robes and Racists"
  The New York Times. Charles M. Blow
  
  
• May 15, 2009. "Eliminating health disparities: What works?—May 2009"
  Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Jim Anderson
  
  
• March 18, 2009. "Ashwood incident shows need for greater dialogue and efforts to combat discrimination"
  The Hawk: The Student Newspaper of Saint Joseph's University. The Hawk Editorial Staff
  
  
• March 17, 2009. "Are you an unconsciously gender-biased manager?"
  The Manila Times. Rachel Quero
  
  
• March 10, 2009. "What are your biases? Take a test and find out!"
  KVAL.com - KVAL CBS 13: Eugene, Oregon. Arrianee LeBeau
  
  
• March 7, 2009. "Are you prejudiced? Take the Implicit Association Test"
  The Guardian.
  
  
• March 5, 2009. "The truth about the monkey business"
  The Huffington Post. Veronica Conway
  
  
• January 28, 2009. "Connecting political rhetoric to daily action"
  The Huffington Post. Christine Mason McCaull
  
  
• January 20, 2009. "Researchers try to cure racism"
  Wired Science. Brandon Keim
  
  
• January 20, 2009. "The future's brown"
  Times Online. Matthew Syed
  
  
• January 12, 2009. "Are we more racist than we think we are?"
  STLtoday.com. Kurt Greenbaum
  
  
• January 7, 2009. "A chance road to Harvard"
  The Harvard Crimson. Weiqi Zhang
  
  

2008

• November 26, 2008. "Bias on the brain"
  Rocky Mountain News. Vincent Carroll
  
  
• September 29, 2008. "How a race about race could be less about race"
  Miller-McCune. Michael Haederle
  
  
• September 24, 2008. "Is America ready for a black president?"
  The Capital Times. Todd Finkelmeyer
  
  
• September 23, 2008. "Racial prejudice and the elderly"
  Chicago Tribune. Howard Witt
  
  
• September 20, 2008. "Racial associations and implicit associations: Or -- will white Dem racism cost Obama the election?"
  TheAtlantic.com. Marc Ambinder
  
  
• September 2, 2008. "The psychology of black stereotypes in white America"
  ScienceBlogs.com. Matthew C. Nisbet
  
  
• September 2, 2008. "Test shows unconscious election opinions"
  The Cavalier Daily. Emily Poe
  
  
• August 21, 2008. "Undecided? Don't be so sure"
  ScienceNOW Daily News. John Bohannon
  
  
• August 21, 2008. "Undecided voter? There may be no such thing"
  Los Angeles Times. Denise Gellene
  
  
• August 21, 2008. "You may know how you'll vote before you know it"
  Globe and Mail. Anne McIlroy
  
  
• August 14, 2008. "Voters do lie to pollsters about race - That's black as well as white voters"
  BlackNews.com. Earl Ofari Hutchinson
  
  
• August 6, 2008. "Study: Our implicit biases"
  The Moderate Voice. Joe Windish
  
  
• August 2, 2008. "When voters lie"
  Wall Street Journal. Ellen Gamerman
  
  
• August 2, 2008. "New learning for old psychologists"
  Chevy Chaser. Harriett Rose
  
  
• August 2, 2008. "How (un)ethical are you?"
  Harvard Business Publishing. Mahzarin Banaji, Max Bazerman, Dolly Chugh
  
  
• July 19, 2008. "On the edge"
  Boston Globe. Peter Bebergal
  
  
• June 4, 2008. "Can a black candidate be elected US president?"
  Hindustan Times. Charlotte Raabe
  
  
• May 11, 2008. "In short, stature's no joke, filmmaker argues: Documentary looks at last acceptable prejudice"
  Montreal Gazette. Joel Yanofsky
  
  
• May 8, 2008. "The big race"
  The New Republic. * John B. Judis
  
  
• May 1, 2008. "UW professors create, and consider, neuroscience technology that measures voters' attitudes"
  The Daily of the University of Washington. Catherine Daley
  
  
• May 1, 2008. "Up close: In sciences, female-faculty 'leak' begins early"
  Yale Daily News. Ambika Bhushan
  
  
• April 28, 2008. "¿Eres tan tolerante como crees?"[Spanish language]
  20minutos.es.
  
  
• April 22, 2008. "Doctors' race bias"
  Salon.com. Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
  
  
• April 19, 2008. "Our hidden biases reflected in our work"
  PBS.org. Dori J. Maynard
  
  
• April 18, 2008. "Technology bias: Can you avoid it?"
  tgdaily.com. Jack Fewx.
  
  
• April 7, 2008. "Covering the 'Colorblind' Generation"
  Poynter Online. Aly Colon
  
  
• April 6, 2008. "Our Racist, Sexist Selves"
  New York Times. Nicholas D. Kristof
  
  
• April 4, 2008. ""Colorblind" generation struggles with race"
  Seattle Times. Haley Edwards
  
  
• March 21, 2008. "Self-portrait of a racist"
  The Globe and Mail. Pasha Malla
  
  
• March 3, 2008. "Discover your secret feelings for Hillary"
  Newscientist.com. Peter Aldhous
  
  
• February 17, 2008. "Black man vs. white woman"
  Boston Globe. Drake Bennett
  
  
• February 11, 2008. "'Bradley effect' may continue to complicate election polls, researchers suggest"
  PBS: Online NewsHour. Lea Winerman
  
  
• February 11, 2008. "The secret haters"
  Newsweek.com. Wray Herbert
  
  
• February 6, 2008. "Implicit (unconscious) race bias and the 2008 Presidential election: Does Obama stand a chance?"
  The Huffington Post. Gregory S. Parks
  
  
• January 23, 2008. "We don't know what we think: Unconscious attitudes lurk in our subconscious"
  Atlanta Journal Constitution. Mahzarin Banaji
  
  
• January 20, 2008. "Gut instinct: a powerful election force"
  Concord Monitor. Hillary Nelson
  
  
• January 19, 2008. "Face the ugly truth: Skin color still matters"
  Albany Times Union. Cynthia Tucker
  
  
• January 10, 2008. "My biases"
  TheAtlantic.com. Matthew Yglesias
  
  
• January 9, 2008. "How color-blind are you...really?"
  Augusta Free Press. Chris Graham
  
  
• January 6, 2008. "Those people"
  Boston Globe. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
  
  

2007

• December 21, 2007. "Study says voters may surprise pollsters in Democratic presidential primaries."
  AllHeadlineNews.com. Linda Young
  
  
• December 20, 2007. "The body politic's shifty mind."
  Seattle Times. Jerry Large
  
  
• December 18, 2007. "Study suggests polls overestimate support for Obama, underestimate backing for Clinton."
  EurekAlert. Joel Schwarz
  
  
• December 12, 2007. "Blinded by prejudice"
  USA Today. Sheryl McCarthy
  
  
• October 31, 2007. "Coup de projecteur: Descriminez vous sans le savoir?" [French language]
  Le Figaro. Gaelle Rolin
  
  
• October 16, 2007. "The racial prejudice that besets medicine"
  Galveston County Daily News. Howard Brody
  
  
• September 24, 2007. "Believing Is Seeing: Optical Illusions and Social Stereotypes"
  Poynter Online. Sally Lehrman
  
  
• August 23, 2007. "Unconscious Racial Bias Leads to Different Treatments by Doctors"
  Associated Content: The People's Media Company. Kay Jones
  
  
• August 13, 2007. "The Color of Health Care: Diagnosing Bias in Doctors"
  Washington Post. Shankar Vedantam
  
  
• August 10, 2007. "Too Many Studies Use College Students As Their Guinea Pigs"
  Wall Street Journal. Carl Bialik
  
  
• August 10, 2007. "How Voters Can Protect Against Inner Biases"
  Chronicle of Higher Education. Dalton Conley
  
  
• August 3, 2007. "Doctors’ Treatment Decisions Influenced By Race Bias"
  The Harvard Crimson. Malcolm A. Glenn
  
  
• July 21, 2007. "Race in Medical Care: Skin Color Matters with Patient Care"
  ABCnews.com.
  
  
• July 20, 2007. "Tests of trainee doctors find signs of race bias in care"
  Boston Globe. Stephen Smith
  
  
• June 20, 2007. "UW professor finds self-esteem universal"
  The Daily of the University of Washington. Shannon O'Hara
  
  
• June 16, 2007. "Self-esteem in Japan students equals American, Chinese: Study"
  Zee News.
  
  
• June 14, 2007. "Self-effacing people are secretly confident"
  MSNBC. Jeanna Bryner
  
  
• May 16, 2007. "Test can reveal hidden biases"
  The Daily of the University of Washington. Eli Schwimmer
  
  
• May 10, 2007. "Discussion of bias needs give and take"
  San Francisco Chronicle. Gwen Knapp
  
  
• March 12, 2007. "Prejudice proves to be an all-too-human trait"
  Gainesville Times. Mike Freeman
  
  
• February 20, 2007. "Solving the gender equation"
  The Michigan Daily. Rebecca Grapevine
  
  
• February 18, 2007. "Conheca-se a si mesmo" [Portugeuse language]
  Noticias Magazine. Helena Mendonca
  
  
• February 10, 2007. ""It's Tribal Instinct""
  Tehelka - The People's Paper. Jane Rankin-Reid
  
  
• February 8, 2007. "Bias is as infectious as the flu"
  Seattle Times. Jerry Large
  
  
• February 7, 2007. "Tufts community gathers for Town Hall Meeting on stereotyping"
  The Tufts Daily. Kat Schmidt
  
  
• February 2, 2007. "The irrelevance of soft bigotry: Why Joe Biden's foul-up doesn't matter."
  Slate Magazine. Richard Thompson Ford
  
  
• January 15, 2007. "Pretend equality not the answer."
  The University of Texas at Dallas Mercury. Iris Kuo
  
  
• January 3, 2007. "Gesinnungs-TÜV in Millisekunden" [German language]
  Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nicolas Westerhoff
  
  

2006

• December 10, 2006. "You can't be a fat cat until you shed a few pounds"
  Seattle Times. Jerry Large
  
  
• December 4, 2006. "Are most white Americans racist?"
  Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
  
  
• December 2, 2006. "Extra weight, higher costs"
  New York Times. *
  
  
• November 27, 2006. "Michael Richards Controversy"
  NPR.org.Talk of the Nation
  
  
• November 26, 2006. "Racists Under the Skin? Blame our Tribal Nature"
  Hartford Courant.
  
  
• November 26, 2006. "Gepruft auf Kopf und Bauch" [German language]
  Ärtzliche Praxis NeurologiePsychiatrie.
  
  
• November 24, 2006. "We're all racists unconsciously"
  Los Angeles Times. Michael Shermer
  
  
• November 6, 2006. "Prof: Minds Crawl with Bugs: Professor's research suggests unconscious social biases are common"
  The Harvard Crimson. Madeline K. Ross
  
  
• October 26, 2006. "Black GOP Seek to Change Voting Habits"
  San Francisco Chronicle. Kristin Wyatt
  
  
• October 26, 2006. "Mind over matter"
  Fort Worth Star Telegram.
  
  
• October 9, 2006. "For Allen and Webb, Implicit Biases Would be Better Confronted"
  Washington Post. Shankar Vedantam
  
  
• July 5, 2006. "Vi liker heterofile bedre enn homofile"[Norwegian language]
  Magasinet. Astrid Meland
  
  
• June 30, 2006. "De lurende fordomme"[Danish language]
  Weekendavisen. Lone Frank
  
  
• June, 2006. "The Implicit Prejudice"
  Scientific American. Sally Lehrman
  
  
• May 16, 2006. "Some people would give life or limb not to be fat"
  EurekAlert. Jacqueline Weaver
  
  
• May 15, 2006. "White Men Can't Help It: Courts have been buying the idea that they have innate biases"
  BusinessWeek.com. Michael Orey
  
  
• April 27, 2006. "Los prejuicios inconscientes son la fuente oculta de nuestro comportamiento" [Spanish language]
  Tendencias 21. Marta Morales
  
  
• April 22, 2006. "The Bias Finders: A test on unconscious bias polarizes psychologists"
  Science News Online. Bruce Bower
  
  
• April 13, 2006. "Was uns glucklich macht" [German language]
  Der Tagesspiegel. Von Heike Zappe
  
  
• Winter, 2006. "Snap Judgments: Psychological test reveals hidden bias"
  The University of Virginia Magazine.
  
  
• February 22, 2006. "Test reveals racial attitudes"
  Fox 2 News. Honululu, HI
  
  
• February, 2006. "Detecting Hidden Bias"
  HR Magazine. Pamela Babcock
  
  
• January 30, 2006. "Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases"
  Washington Post. Shankar Vedantam
  
  
• January 26, 2006. "Screen Test - Why We Should Start Measuring Bias"
  Slate. Jay Dixit
  
  

2005

• December 26, 2005. "Don’t Race to Judgment"
  U.S. News & World Report.
  
  
• October, 2005. "When Good People (Seem to) Negotiate in Bad Faith"
  Negotiation. Max H. Bazerman
  
  
• July, 2005. "Blink" [book review]
  Business Today Egypt. Khaled Habib
  
  
• May 4, 2005. "Trendwatchers" [Dutch language]
  De Standaard. Nathalie Bekx
  
  
• April 20, 2005. "Are You Racist? The Test That Claims to Know "
  BBC News Magazine. Lucy Wilkins
  
  
• April 8, 2005. "Summers Displays New Understanding of Women’s Careers"
  Boston Globe. Marcella Bombardieri
  
  
• April 7, 2005. "Remarks at the National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science"
  Speech. Lawrence H. Summers
  
  
• April 6, 2005. "Bias shows through when Blazers take the Implicit Association Tests"
  Silver Chips Online. Zahra Gordon
  
  
• April 4, 2005. "Try not to judge customers entirely on first impressions"
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Melissa Brown
  
  
• March, 2005. "Not Biased?"
  APA Monitor on Psychology. Karen Kersting
  
  
• March 24, 2005. "Radcliffe Conference Presents a Variety of Views"
  Harvard University Gazette. Ken Gewertz
  
  
• March 2, 2005. "Hidden Motives"
  Scientifican American Frontiers. Alan Alda
  
  
• March 1, 2005. "The Bias Test"
  Fox 59 News. Cheryl Parker
  
  
• February 21, 2005. "In My Humble Opinion: Scientists Are From Mars, Artists Are From Venus"
  The Chattanoogan. Mike North
  
  
• February 5, 2005. "Blink by Malcolm Gladwell"
  London Times. Howard Davies
  
  
• January 31, 2005. "As Test Shows, White Bias Still Prevalent in Society"
  The Oakland Press. Courtland Milloy
  
  
• January 24, 2005. "Post Magazine: The Bias Test (Chat)"
  Washington Post. Shankar Vedantam
  
  
• January 24, 2005. "Faust to Lead New Initiative"
  The Harvard Crimson. Daniel J. Hemel
  
  
• January 23, 2005. "See No Bias"
  Washington Post. Shankar Vedantam
  
  
• January 16, 2005. "The Peril of Snap Decisions"
  Toronto Star. Nora Young
  
  
• January 12, 2005. "‘Blink’: The Power of Impulse and Intuition"
  NPR. Allison Keyes
  
  
• January 11, 2005. "You Can Judge This Book By Its Cover"
  New York Sun. Michael Shermer
  
  
• January 7, 2005. "Unmasking Bias"
  NSF Discoveries.
  
  
• January 5, 2005. "Researchers Constrast Statistics with Intuition"
  All Things Considered, NPR.
  
  

2004

• December 19, 2004. "Invisible Bias"
  Boston Globe. Chris Berdik
  
  
• December 16, 2004. "Making Case for Concept of ’Implicit Prejudice‘"
  Harvard Gazette. Beth Potier
  
  
• December 9, 2004. "Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces"
  Medical News Today. Steve Bradt
  
  
• June 14, 2004. "IDEAS Boston 2004 Speakers"
  Boston Globe.
  
  
• May/June 2004. "Can you trust first impressions?"
  Psychology Today. Carlin Flora
  
  
• April 27, 2004. "Indian American professor studies nature of prejudice"
  INDOlink.com. Francis C. Assisi
  
  
• March 24, 2004. "The roots of hatred"
  AARP - The Magazine. Sharon Begley
  
  
• Spring, 2004. "How Ethical Are You?"
  Bridges. Mahzarin Banaji, Max Bazerman, and Dolly Chugh
  
  
• February 27, 2004. "Find out if you have any hidden biases by taking a test"
  Houston Chronicle. Linda S. Wallace.
  
  

2003

• December 22, 2003. "Unintended bias"
  Computerworld, Australia. Kathleen Melymuka.
  
  
• July 15, 2003. "Inside the Psychopath."
  Boston Globe. Carey Goldberg. *
  
  
• July 8, 2003. "Blacks more likely to be shot than whites even when holding harmless objects."
  Eurekalert.org.
  
  
• July 8, 2003. "Making Enemies"
  The Village Voice. Solana Pyne.
  
  
• June 17, 2003. "Brain shows unconscious prejudices: Fear center is activated."
  Harvard Gazette. William J. Cromie.
  
  
• May, 2003. "E-Research"
  gradPSYCH. Etienne Benson. *
  
  
• March 25, 2003. "Racism caught in the net."
  Sydney Morning Herald. Steve Dow.
  
  
• March 19, 2003. "Psychologists explore unconscious sources of racial prejudice."
  UVA Top News Daily. Matt Kelly.
  
  
• January 31, 2003. "Unmasking Bias."
  Science Nuggets.
  
  

2002

• December 18, 2002. "Roots of racism revealed."
  ABCnews.com. Claudine Chamberlain.
  
  
• December 10, 2002. "With Video Games, Researchers Link Guns to Stereotypes."
  New York Times. Erica Goode.
  
  
• October 28, 2002. "Even Elders Reflect Broad Bias Against the Old, Study Finds."
  Boston Globe. Carey Goldberg. *
  
  
• April 18, 2002. "Prejudice is not just Black and White."
  Harvard Gazette. Beth Potier.
  
  
• March 6, 2002. "The Infinite Mind: Prejudice"
  Radio broadcast.
  
  
• January 1, 2002. "At the frontier of science. Social cognitive neuroscience merges three distinct disciplines in hopes of deciphering the process behind social behavior."
  Monitor On Psychology. Beth Azar.
  
  

2001

• November 29, 2001. "Checking Attitudes About Arab Muslims Online."
  Daily University Science News. Joel Schwarz.
  
  
• November 28, 2001. "Teste seu preconceito inconsciente contra muculmanos"
  Noticias de Universidades e Centros de Pesquisa.
  
  
• July 16, 2001. "Memory's Mind Games."
  Newsweek. Sharon Begley.
  
  

2000

• September 5, 2000. "How, but Not Why, the Brain Distinguishes Race."
  New York Times. David Berreby. *
  
  
• July 2000. Interview with Mahzarin Banaji: Implicit attitudes and the IAT.
  KOCE-TV/PBS. Broadcast Transcript. *
  
  
• May 2000. "Pride and Prejudice."
  Dateline NBC. Video.
  
  
• January 24, 2000. "Support rates offer surprising stats: Website reveals conflicts among voters' preferences."
  University Week.
  
  

1998

• October 13, 1998. "A Computer Diagnosis of Prejudice."
  New York Times. Erica Goode. *
  
  
• September 2, 1998. "Student Orientation at Yale Reveals Beliefs about Race."
  Hartford Courant. Robert Frahm.
  
  
• May/June, 1998. "Where Bias Begins: The Truth about Stereotypes."
  Psychology Today. Annie Murphy Paul.