Towards a Mechanistic Account of Embodied Implicit Bias: Heterarchical Control Network and Its Implications for Intervention.

Implicit bias perpetuates social injustice, serving as a significant barrier to equality and fairness. Despite extensive efforts, most debiasing interventions have failed to produce lasting, robust, and generalizable changes. In this paper, we introduce a new framework—the Heterarchical Control Netw...

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Publicado en:Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 899 - 915
Autores principales: Sechman, Michael Scott, Huang, Linus Ta-Lun
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Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2025
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          https://ror.org/02ttsq026 Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
          https://ror.org/00t33hh48 The Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R.
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        Implicit bias
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        Debiasing intervention
        Embedded cognition
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        Intergroup contact theory
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