Automatic Preference for White Americans: Eliminating the Familiarity Explanation

By Nilanjana Dasgupta, Debbie E. McGhee, A. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Safety, Robustness & Interpretability

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Hi, my name is Martha: Using names to measure and mitigate bias in generative dialogue models (2021, background): “…that given only a first name, humans can often infer the gender and race of the individual with that name and, from that, can draw stereotypical conclusions about them (Dasgupta et al., 2000; Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004; Wheeler, 2016; De-Arteaga et al., 2019; Romanov et al., ar X iv :2 10 9.”
On the malleability of automatic attitudes: combating automatic prejudice with images of admired and disliked individuals. (2001, methodology): “This potential confound was addressed by Dasgupta et al. (2000) and Ottaway et al. (2001) specifically with regard to racial attitudes.”
Sexual Strategies: A Journey Into Controversy (2003, neutral): “Put differently, at issue was the following question: were the speeded reactions captured by the IAT driven by people’s underlying automatic racial attitudes or by some other confounding variable? This essay traces the development of an empirical article that sought to understand how best to interpr”
Implicit attitudes towards native and non-native speaker teachers (2009, neutral): “Thus, previous IAT research conducted in the US has shown faster responses when white is associated with positive and black with negative (e.g. Dasgupta et al., 2000) indicating a prejudice against African Americans.”
Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy (2003, background): “McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) is a measure that has been used to reflect implicit attitudes primarily related to social prejudice, such as gender stereotypes (e.g., Rudman, Greenwald, & McGhee, 1996) and racial evaluations (e.g., Dasgupta, McGhee, Greenwald, & Banaji, 2000 ), and has only recently been”
Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach (2005, background): “Below we briefly review several of the proposed mechanisms.”
THE GO/NO-GO ASSOCIATION TASK (2001, positive): “Recent work shows a proliferation of examples of the context sensitivity of implicit associations, even with very mild changes to the context (Blair et al., 2001; Dasgupta, McGhee, Greenwald, & Banaji, 2000; Lowery et al., 2001; Mitchell et al., 2001).”
Implicit Attitudes Toward Arab-Muslims and the Moderating Effects of Social Information (2007, background): “7 The issue of familiarity with stimulus items was more extensively addressed in previous studies (eg, Dasgupta, Greenwald, & Banaji, 2003 ; Dasgupta, McGhee, Greenwald, & Banaji, 2000 ).”