In a society so deeply saturated with rapid communication and immediate access to the media, we often absorb information that we may not realize affects us. What we see online, what we view on television and what we hear in conversations with friends subconsciously shapes our assumptions.  We draw on what we have been directly and indirectly exposed to in order to build expectations for how the world around us works; this is in fact how we function.   In order to make speedy decisions in everyday life, we rely on what is called our implicit bias. Implicit biases are like […]