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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults
Published on: October 19, 2014
Surely not all experimental studies of bias need abandoning?
1School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, NSW, Australia. fiona.white@sydney.edu.au http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/fiona.white.php.
Abstract:
Cesario misrepresents experimental social psychology. The discipline encompasses significantly more than implicit bias research, including controlled decision making and real-world behavioral observations. Paradoxically, while critiquing popular implicit bias tasks, Cesario also describes task refinements that have significantly advanced their external validity and our contextual understanding of bias. Thus rather than abandonment, a call for "continued improvement" is a far more sensible proposition.
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