Hello Everyone,
I have had many requests for the "Neighbor Game" diversity exercise. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am not the author. The author is Zan Tracy Pender (
tracypender@hotmail.com ). I have contacted him on everyone's behalf and he is willing to share his exercise upon request. Just email him at the address above. I have also cc'd him on this email - Thanks Mr. Pender!
Randy Blass
Randy Blass, PhD
Department of Management
College of Business
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110
Ph: (850) 644-7859
Fax: (850) 644-7843
E-mail:
rblass@cob.fsu.edu <mailto:
rblass@cob.fsu.edu>
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Sent: Thu 6/14/2007 3:11 PM
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Subject: Classroom Exercises to uncover automatic associations/subtle biases/subtle prejudices against demographically different persons
Dear colleagues:
For a course on diversity management, I am looking for experiential
exercises or other ways to have students experience their own subtle
biases, the automatic associations that they may form, and the subtle
prejudices that they may harbor again demographically different persons
(e.g., on the basis of gender or ethnicity).
I have referred to students to Harvard's IAT website
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/. I have also confronted students
with the surgeon scenario (surgeon sees young man on operating table and
says: "this is my son." Who do you think is the surgeon?). I have also
recorded a job interview response in different accents. And I have heard
of a photo exercise that presents pictures to students and then asks for
their perceptions. Finally, I am aware of Banaji et al.'s HBR article
(how ethical are you?) that talks about automatic associations.
However, I still would like to learn about more ways to introduce the
topics of subtle biases/automatic associations/subtle prejudice to the
students in ways that lets them experience these.
I greatly appreciate your response.
Sincerely,
Joerg Dietz
Joerg Dietz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 3K7
Tel.: 519 661 4169
Fax: 519 661 3959
http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/Joerg_Dietz.htm