Wired for Fear: Recognizing and Countering Implicit Bias in the Brain

IF 0.7 0 RELIGION Journal of Pastoral Theology Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI:10.1080/10649867.2021.1929710
W. D. Roozeboom
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ABSTRACT This essay explores the connections between fear, implicit bias, and injustice, noting how the brain’s deeply embedded structures and processes for survival predispose us to detect threat. It further illustrates how the brain’s categorization processes collude with bias to favor ‘in-group’ members and ‘other’ ‘out-group’ members. Taken together, these factors limit the brain’s mirror neural network’s capacities to empathize across lines of difference. While this sounds reductionistic and pessimistic, the good news is that, just like the brain is generally malleable, implicit biases can be modified through debiasing practices. In exploring these concepts, the essay examines the contributions from intercultural and postcolonial pastoral and practical theology to provide constructive frameworks for facing one another, enhancing recognition, and developing neighbor-love.
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恐惧连线:认识和对抗大脑中的隐性偏见
摘要本文探讨了恐惧、隐性偏见和不公正之间的联系,指出了大脑根深蒂固的生存结构和过程如何使我们倾向于检测威胁。它进一步说明了大脑的分类过程如何与偏向“组内”成员和“其他”“组外”成员的偏见相勾结。综合来看,这些因素限制了大脑镜像神经网络跨越差异线进行移情的能力。虽然这听起来像是还原论和悲观主义,但好消息是,就像大脑通常是可塑的一样,隐性偏见可以通过去偏见实践来改变。在探索这些概念的过程中,本文考察了跨文化和后殖民时期田园和实践神学的贡献,为彼此面对、提高认识和发展邻居之爱提供了建设性的框架。
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