g-f(2)97 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE, ABA, Everyone Is a Little Bit Biased.

Extra-condensed knowledge

We all have biases that affect all aspects of our lives and the lives of others with whom we interact.

• Having a bias doesn’t make you a bad person, however, and not every bias is negative or hurtful. 
• It’s not recognizing biases that can lead to bad decisions at work, in life, and in relationships.
• Although we must be willing to identify and interrupt our own biases, we must also recognize and be willing to interrupt bias in others.

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Condensed knowledge  

• We all have biases that affect all aspects of our lives and the lives of others with whom we interact.
• Having a bias doesn’t make you a bad person, however, and not every bias is negative or hurtful. 
• It’s not recognizing biases that can lead to bad decisions at work, in life, and in relationships.
• Although people have both explicit and implicit biases, the implicit ones are the most concerning because they are the ones we don’t recognize we have.
• What Is Implicit Bias? 
• The Kirwan Institute (for the study of race and ethnicity) at Ohio State University defines these biases as “the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, decisions and actions in an unconscious manner. These implicit biases we all hold do not necessarily align with our own declared beliefs.”
• Is It Possible to Overcome Our Implicit Biases? 
• Although we must be willing to identify and interrupt our own biases, we must also recognize and be willing to interrupt bias in others.
• This is probably the most difficult and the most uncomfortable part of overcoming bias.
• Research indicates that we tend to perceive anyone different from us as a threat because our brain tells us to do so.

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Fernando Machuca

References

Everyone Is a Little Bit Biased, Karen Steinhauser, March 16, 2020, American Bar Association.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Karen Steinhauser is a practicing attorney, judge, and adjunct law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado. She presents workshops and seminars to lawyers and nonlawyers, government offices, and private businesses in the area of implicit/unconscious bias.

Professional Biography

Karen Steinhauser is a Judge, a trial lawyer, Adjunct Law School Professor and NITA Instructor.  She has practiced law for 39 years and has tried more than 250 jury trials. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyer from 2012-2019.  Karen has taught Evidence and Trial Advocacy as well as other substantive classes at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law for 29 years, and was the traveling mock trial coach for 17 years, leading the team to two National Championships.  She has been a faculty member for NITA for 29 years, serving as a Program Director for custom programs such as Trial Skills Programs, Deposition Programs, Fact Finding Programs and Mediation Programs, and has also served as Co-Program Director for NITA’s flagship National Trial Skills Program.