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Everything we do is grounded in research.

Click on a topic to find books, peer-reviewed research, and articles about social bias and belonging.

Brain: Social Neuroscience

Bias: Effects on Belonging

Being: Mindfulness

Brain
Amodio et al, 2014
The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping
Brain
Olsson et al., 2005
The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear
Brain
Golkar et al., 2015
Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator's racial group
Brain
Balter, 2010
When social fear disappears, so does racism
Brain
Bartal et al., 2014
Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience
Brain
Allsop et al., 2018
Corticoamygdala transfer of socially derived information gates observational learning

Bias
Brown et al., 2017
Classroom Conversations in the Study of Race and the Disruption of Social and Educational Inequalities: A Review of Research
Bias
Sadie Trombetta, Bustle
10 Books about Race to Read Instead of Asking A Person of Color to Explain Things to You
Bias
McIntosh, via Racial Equity Tools
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Bias
McGee, 2018
“Black Genius, Asian Fail”: The Detriment of Stereotype Lift and Stereotype Threat in High-Achieving Asian and Black STEM Students
Bias
AFT Higher Education
Promoting Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Faculty: What Higher Education Unions Can Do
Bias
Kendall, via UCF SafeZone
How to be an advocate if you are a person with privilege

Being
Kate Mooney, HuffPost, 2020
How mindfulness can help with racial trauma
Being
Kang et al., 2014
The nondiscriminating heart: Lovingkindness meditation training decreases implicit intergroup bias
Being
Banakou et al., 2016
Virtual embodiment of white people in a black virtual body leads to a sustained reduction in their implicit racial bias
Being
Lueke and Gibson, 2016
Brief mindfulness meditation reduces discrimination
Being
Stell and Farsides, 2015
Brief loving-kindness meditation reduces racial bias, mediated by positive other-regarding emotions
Being
Lueke and Gibson, 2014
Mindfulness meditation reduces implicit age and race bias: the role of reduced automaticity of responding

Employees with a strong sense of belonging are nearly 22x more likely to be fully engaged.*

Employees with a strong sense of belonging are nearly 22x more likely to be fully engaged.*
*Research from the Center for Workplace Transformation

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