Unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions without our awareness. These biases operate automatically and can influence behavior even when they contradict our conscious beliefs and values.
The term combines 'implicit' from Latin 'implicitus' (entangled, involved) and 'bias' from Old French 'biais' (slant, slope). The psychological concept was formalized in the 1990s through research by Anthony Greenwald and others developing the Implicit Association Test.
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