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The Bias Inside Us

The Bias Inside Us is a community engagement project featuring a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, the centerpiece for local programs and activities that raise awareness about the science and history of bias and what people can do about it. The project is grounded in research and teaches us that bias is inside everyone. It is part of being human.

The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service will travel The Bias Inside Us to 40 communities across the country from 2021 through 2024. Organized into year-long regional tours, the project will tour the Upper Midwest in 2021-2022 before moving to the Southeast in late 2022, the Southwest in late 2023, and the Northeast in late 2024.

The Bias Inside Us begins its Midwest tour in January 2021.

The Bias Inside Us's collections

 

Additional Resources

<p>This collection is a catch-all of resources that don't fit into other collections, but may be helpful in your work.</p>
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Exhibition Resources

<p>Did something from <em>The Bias Inside Us</em> exhibition stick with you that you would like to learn more about?  In this collection we have gathered resources that appeared directly in the exhibition.  </p>
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Harvard University Resources

<p><strong>Videos. Podcasts. Articles. Tests. All freely available to the general public.</strong></p> <p>The human mind is both extraordinary and fallible. The same mind capable of ingenuity and compassion is also capable of making decisions that defy rationality and go against our best interests as individuals and organizations.</p> <p>Outsmarting Human Minds: A Project at Harvard University (OHM) is a media series that explores the quirks and blindspots of the mind using insights from psychological science. The hope of this project is that by knowing the science, we can take steps to outsmart our minds and improve the decisions we make in life and at work.</p>
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Scholarly Conversations

<p>A deeper dive into conversations with scholars on topics related to bias.</p>
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Start Here - Learning About Implicit Bias

<p>These three webinars, created by Dr. Corey Yeager for <em>The Bias Inside U</em><em>s</em>, provide foundational learning for educators as they prepare for sharing this exhibition with their students.</p>
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The Bias Inside Us Book Lists

<p>A collection of book lists that educators can reference as they diversify their learning resources.</p>
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