Implicit racial biases are lower in more populous more diverse and less segregated US cities.

ABSTRACT: Implicit biases - differential attitudes towards members of distinct groups - are pervasive in human societies and create inequities across many aspects of life. Recent research has revealed that implicit biases are generally driven by social contexts, but not whether they are systematically influenced by the ways that humans self-organize in cities. We leverage complex system modeling in the framework of urban scaling theory to predict differences in these biases between cities. Our model links spatial scales from city-wide infrastructure to individual psychology to predict that cities that are more populous, more diverse, and less segregated are less biased. We find empirical support for these predictions in U.S. cities with Implicit Association Test data spanning a decade from 2.7 milli

SUBMITTER: Stier AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847142 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature