In my initial implicit bias test, it yielded unexpected results regarding the biases I possess. I took the tests analyzing African American and European American, Arab Muslims and other people, and the association of American with European American and foreign with Asian American. The first test was taken at the beginning of the semester to help us to begin understanding the concepts of intercultural communication.
My first results produced fairly predictable results, considering my personal views. I exhibited little to no automatic preference between European American and African American; a strong automatic preference for other people compared to Arab Muslims and strong automatic association for American with European American and foreign with Asian American. I consider myself to be a fairly tolerant and accepting person when it comes to people of different cultures, genders, religious beliefs, and other factors. This explains my lack of surprise at my first result regarding African Americans. I was slightly shocked by the severity of my bias against Arab Muslims. Previously, I was unaware of this bias and this would be considered my most prominent bias with my first results. According to Martin and Nakayama (2013), …show more content…
Again, growing up in a fairly homogenous area, I was not exposed to diversity often. When I did encounter it, I can say with full certainty that I was a bit taken aback by it. In a study by Meadors and Murray (2014), it was found that women’s “nonverbal expressions are generally encoded better, meaning their anxiety and uncertainty may have been detected more easily or reliably” (p. 225). For myself, I use a lot of nonverbal communication to convey my feelings and, unintentionally, for first impressions. If I find a person, behavior, or phrase to be unusual or especially out of the ordinary, I tend to visibly react
My first results produced fairly predictable results, considering my personal views. I exhibited little to no automatic preference between European American and African American; a strong automatic preference for other people compared to Arab Muslims and strong automatic association for American with European American and foreign with Asian American. I consider myself to be a fairly tolerant and accepting person when it comes to people of different cultures, genders, religious beliefs, and other factors. This explains my lack of surprise at my first result regarding African Americans. I was slightly shocked by the severity of my bias against Arab Muslims. Previously, I was unaware of this bias and this would be considered my most prominent bias with my first results. According to Martin and Nakayama (2013), …show more content…
Again, growing up in a fairly homogenous area, I was not exposed to diversity often. When I did encounter it, I can say with full certainty that I was a bit taken aback by it. In a study by Meadors and Murray (2014), it was found that women’s “nonverbal expressions are generally encoded better, meaning their anxiety and uncertainty may have been detected more easily or reliably” (p. 225). For myself, I use a lot of nonverbal communication to convey my feelings and, unintentionally, for first impressions. If I find a person, behavior, or phrase to be unusual or especially out of the ordinary, I tend to visibly react