"Unlearning" automatic biases: The malleability of implicit prejudice and stereotypes

The present research suggests that automatic and controlled intergroup bias es can be modified through diversity education. In 2 experiments, students enrolled in a prejudice and conflict seminar showed significantly reduced i mplicit and explicit anti-Black biases, compared with control students. The authors explored correlates of prejudice and stereotype reduction. In each experiment, seminar students' implicit and explicit change scores positive ly covaried with factors suggestive of affective and cognitive processes, r espectively. The findings show the malleability of implicit prejudice and s tereotypes and suggest that these may effectively be changed through affect ive processes.