From the course: Unconscious Bias
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The basis of unconscious bias
From the course: Unconscious Bias
The basis of unconscious bias
- In his book, "Beauty Pays," Daniel Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, studied the relationship between personal attributes and economics. Hamermesh confirmed that skinny people make more money than overweight people, tall men are promoted more often than short men, white women are paid more than black women and much more than Latina women, bald men make less money than men with a full head of hair, yet men in general are paid more than women. Differently abled and LGBTQ+ professionals make less than men across the board as well. Why does this type of bias happen? I don't think anyone sets out to do this on purpose, yet it happens consistently enough and on a large enough scale for it to be studied. If someone has an attribute we find favorable, subconsciously we think that person is good, and of course we want to associate with good people. It's this unconscious need to categorize…
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