Resistance to knowledge about implicit bias jeopardizes the ability to learn, understand, and act to outsmart bias. Across three experiments and five independent samples (N > 3,500), conditions that increase cognitive consistency were created alongside control conditions. In Experiment 1, using a race (Black-White) Implicit Association Test (IAT), cognitive consistency was enhanced when participants evaluated the validity and utility of the test before, rather than after, receiving the test result, leading to greater acceptance of bias. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants either evaluated their performance on a Black-White IAT alone or evaluated their performance on a morally innocuous Insect-Flower IAT prior to a Black-White IAT. Again, resistance to evidence of implicit racial bias was reduced in the latter condition, where the imperative for cognitive consistency was heightened. In all three experiments, creating ordinary conditions to heighten cognitive consistency was associated with increased bias awareness and acceptance and, additionally, with support for actions to minimize its consequence-outcomes critical to achieving effective bias education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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引发认知一致性会增加对隐性偏见的接受度。


对隐性偏见知识的抵制会危及学习、理解和采取行动战胜偏见的能力。在 3 个实验和 5 个独立样本 （N > 3,500） 中，与对照条件一起创建了提高认知一致性的条件。在实验 1 中，使用种族（黑-白）隐含关联测试 （IAT），当参与者在收到测试结果之前而不是之后评估测试的有效性和效用时，认知一致性得到增强，从而更好地接受偏见。在实验 2 和 3 中，参与者要么单独评估他们在黑-白 IAT 上的表现，要么在黑-白 IAT 之前评估他们在道德上无害的昆虫花 IAT 的表现。同样，在后一种情况下，对隐性种族偏见证据的抵抗力降低，此时认知一致性的必要性更加迫切。在所有三个实验中，创造普通条件以提高认知一致性与提高偏见意识和接受度有关，此外，还支持采取行动以尽量减少其后果——对实现有效的偏见教育至关重要。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。