Have you ever caught yourself thinking a prejudiced or stereotyped thought…and then been able to stop yourself? We’re all affected by the millions of social messages our brain takes in every day but self-regulation is one of the many things we can do to tackle prejudice and racism.
“Despite the persistence of prejudices and stereotypes in contemporary society, their effects on behaviour are often countered by people’s egalitarian personal beliefs and pro-social norms7. Guided by these beliefs and norms, people frequently engage self-regulatory processes to mitigate the effects of bias on their behaviour. Hence, a theoretical analysis of prejudice and stereotyping is incomplete without a consideration of these regulatory processes. Here, self-regulation refers to the process of acting in an intentional manner, often through mechanisms of cognitive control.” From Prof David Amodio
https://amodiolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Amodio-2014-Nat-Rev-Neuro.pdf
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