About Stereotypes and Prejudices

Dick and Jane © Jill Littlewood

Dick and Jane © Jill Littlewood

Hidden Bias Tests measure unconscious, or automatic, biases. Your willingness to examine your own possible biases is an important step in understanding the roots of stereotypes and prejudice in our society.

— Teaching Tolerance

This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary "American Denial" looks at the "Implicit Bias Test," which was created to test people's unconscious bias toward words, and races.

WHAT IS IMPLICIT BIAS?