A Clinical Psychologist, Vanessa Karises, has urged people with negative implicit bias to socialize with other people to inspire their actions.

Implicit bias is a form of bias that occurs automatically and unintentionally but nevertheless affects judgments, decisions, and behaviors.

Research has shown implicit bias can pose a barrier to recruiting and retaining a diverse scientific workforce.

Implicit bias influences factors such as behaviors, judgments, and decisions.

Karises says the influences can either be positive or negative.

She says implicit bias can also influence people's attitudes toward a group of people or things and change personalities.

However, she says that these implicit biases can be harmful if they are a negative perception of someone or a stereotype about a group of people or gender.

"The first is that we need to evaluate our assumptions about people, things, groups of people, and stereotypes that we have by asking ourselves simple questions like, "Is this founded by some kind of implicate research? Is it true for everyone from that particular group, for example?" then it can be set to be. The ratio bias, is a negative assumption based on ratio ethnicity. "Just because I am black, you think, for example, that I am lazy, and negative assumptions around age—younger people are lazier than the older generation—can also be around gender."

Different strategies to overcome implicit bias include identifying the bias, reflecting on it, making deliberate efforts to be around people who are different,

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