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Recent overviews of all three research programs
Behavioral Science Needs to Return to the Basics
"Our criticism of microaggressions spans concerns related to both weak measurement and an undue reliance on lived experience... Despite its immense influence, the IAT is a flawed measure... As for the IAT’s validity, nobody has convincingly shown that patterns of reaction times actually reflect 'unconscious bias' (or 'implicit prejudice') as opposed to cultural stereotypes."
Bias in Psychology: A Critical, Historical and Empirical Review
"Core findings and limitations to stereotype threat, microaggressions, and implicit bias are discussed... The consequences of researchers overselling findings manifest differently, but in many ways more seriously, for implicit bias and microaggressions"
Psychology Learning & Teaching
Critical perspectives
Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology: Nature, Scope, and Solutions
Chapter 7 ('Prejudice and the Quality of the Science of Contemporary Social Justice Efforts in Psychology'): "For some, simply raising these concerns may be regarded as a seriously problematic act that is reflective of immorality, prejudice, or bad faith... To date, there has been so little concern about the refinement of the constructs [...] such as microaggression, implicit bias, systemic racism, privilege, cultural appropriation, and so on."
Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind
Chapter 5 ('Rethinking Unconscious Bias'): "a concept [microaggression] that cannot be objectively verified by outside observers is a poor candidate for scientific scrutiny... [T]he evidence doesn't even come close to proving that most of us walk around with unacknowledged and unconscious biases in our heads."
The Politics of Social Psychology
In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases to influence their research. These biases may influence the development of research hypotheses, the design of studies and methods and materials chosen to test hypotheses, decisions to publish or not publish results based on their consistency with one's prior political beliefs, and how results are described and dissemination to the popular press.
Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology: Nature, Scope, and Solutions
Chapter 7 ('Prejudice and the Quality of the Science of Contemporary Social Justice Efforts in Psychology'): "For some, simply raising these concerns may be regarded as a seriously problematic act that is reflective of immorality, prejudice, or bad faith... To date, there has been so little concern about the refinement of the constructs [...] such as microaggression, implicit bias, systemic racism, privilege, cultural appropriation, and so on."
Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind
Chapter 5 ('Rethinking Unconscious Bias'): "a concept [microaggression] that cannot be objectively verified by outside observers is a poor candidate for scientific scrutiny... [T]he evidence doesn't even come close to proving that most of us walk around with unacknowledged and unconscious biases in our heads."
The Politics of Social Psychology
In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases to influence their research. These biases may influence the development of research hypotheses, the design of studies and methods and materials chosen to test hypotheses, decisions to publish or not publish results based on their consistency with one's prior political beliefs, and how results are described and dissemination to the popular press.
