A Study of the Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Neuropsychological Research on Implicit Bias

一位博士后研究员将研究神经心理学研究对内隐偏见的社会、伦理和政策影响。他将使用一种多地点的定性方法来经验性地追踪和阐明隐性偏见研究的物质后果和社会影响。本项目旨在了解神经科学关于内隐偏见的研究是如何在实验室中产生和组织的，并了解社会动力学是如何在关于内隐偏见的神经心理学研究中概念化和可操作性的，特别强调在神经生物学层面上将种族和种族主义付诸实施的前景和挑战。然后，研究人员将使用这些确定来阐明当前和未来对内隐偏见的神经心理学研究的干预和政策机会。该项目的成果将有助于更好地评估在社会中使用神经科学研究提出的伦理问题，这将有助于制定和执行关于不平等和歧视的体制和社会政策。该项目旨在增加关注科学技术的伦理、法律和社会影响的人数不足的少数族裔研究人员的数量。该项目是首批研究神经科学研究中如何使用和援引种族的经验性科学项目之一。它将通过洞察这些对认知和行为的新神经理解如何影响种族的经验和实践，为成熟的科学、技术和社会(STS)关于基因组学和种族的研究做出实质性贡献。这项研究将通过关注社会动力在内隐偏见研究中的测量和利用的方式，来解决越来越多地使用生物-社会模型的研究问题。这项研究将认真对待大脑的物质性和社会现实；在这样做的过程中，它将描述如何通过神经研究来定义、操作和转变(或重新想象)“社会”。此外，该项目将有助于阐明神经科学研究的伦理挑战，并阐明专注于大脑和社会性之间的交叉的跨学科STS学术的优势和局限性。

General Audience Summary A post-doctoral research fellow will examine the social, ethical, and policy implications of neuropsychological research on implicit bias. He will use a multi-sited qualitative methodology to empirically trace and elucidate the material consequences and social implications of implicit bias research. This project seeks to understand how neuroscience research on implicit bias is produced and organized in the lab, and to understand how social dynamics are conceptualized and operationalized in neuropsychological research on implicit bias, with specific emphasis on the promises and challenges of operationalizing race and racism at the neurobiological level. These determinations will then be used by the research fellow to elucidate the current and future interventions and policy opportunities for neuropsychological research on implicit bias. The results from this project will help better appraise ethical issues raised by the use of neuroscience research in society, which will aid in development and implementation of institutional and social policies on inequality and discrimination. The project serves enhance the number of underrepresented minority researchers focused on ethical, legal, and social impacts of science and technology.Technical Summary This project is one of the first empirical science projects to examine how race is used and invoked in neuroscience research. It will contribute substantially to the well established Science, Technology, and Society (STS) research on genomics and race by providing insight into the ways these new neuro-understandings of cognition and behavior impact experiences with and practices of race. The study will address the growing use of bio-social models of research by focusing on the way social dynamics are measured and utilized in implicit bias research. The study will take the materiality and social realities of the brain seriously; in so doing, it will describe how the "social" is defined, operationalized, and transformed (or re-imagined) through neuro-research. In addition, the project will help illuminate the ethical challenges for neuroscience research and elucidate the advantages and limits of interdisciplinary STS scholarship that is focused on the intersections between the brain and sociality.