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How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood

  • Written by Gail Heyman, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
imageComputer training can decrease children's biases.Jeff Inglis, CC BY-ND

Racial bias can seem like an intractable problem. Psychologists and other social scientists have had difficulty finding effective ways to counter it – even among people who say they support a fairer, more egalitarian society. One likely reason for the difficulty is that...

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