unconscious bias
Unrecognized mental favoritism
Unconscious bias refers to attitudes or stereotypes that affect understanding, actions, and decisions without awareness.
Unlike conscious prejudice, these biases operate automatically, shaped by background, culture, and personal experiences.
Everyone holds unconscious biases—about race, gender, age, appearance—that can influence hiring decisions, medical diagnoses, or everyday interactions.
Training programs aim to help employees recognize their unconscious biases.
Also called implicit bias.
- automaticitySelf-generating action capacity
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
heuristics · microaggressions · code switching · snap judgment · snap decisions · first impression · split second · educational disparities · conditioning · diversity training · blind spot · selective attention · socialization · schema · group identity · social norms · inclusion · level playing field
- biasprejudice, racism, bigotry, sexism, ageism
- biaseshalo effect, horn effect
- social equityracial justice, disability rights, racial equity, diversity training, intersectionality
- social justiceracial justice, privilege, white privilege, economic justice, equal opportunity
- Unconsciousid, ego, superego, repression, dreams
- workplace equityequal opportunity, pay equity, fair employment, fair hiring, fair treatment
unconscious biasobjectivity
Freedom from personal bias
impartiality · fairness · neutrality · even-handedness · fair-mindedness