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SUBMITTER: Hu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4467959 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150501 6238
Although people may endorse egalitarianism and tolerance, social biases can remain operative and drive harmful actions in an unconscious manner. Here, we investigated training to reduce implicit racial and gender bias. Forty participants processed counterstereotype information paired with one sound for each type of bias. Biases were reduced immediately after training. During subsequent slow-wave sleep, one sound was unobtrusively presented to each participant, repeatedly, to reactivate one type ...[more]