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

内隐偏见神经心理学研究的社会、伦理和政策影响研究

• 批准号: 1632596
• 负责人: Oliver Rollins
• 金额: $ 9.05万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632596&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Study; Social; Ethical; Policy; Implications

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.

总受众概述博士后研究员将研究神经心理学研究对隐性偏见的社会，道德和政策含义。他将使用一种多主体定性方法来实证追踪和阐明隐性偏见研究的物质后果和社会含义。该项目旨在了解如何在实验室中产生和组织有关隐性偏见的神经科学研究，并了解社会动态如何在对隐性偏见的神经心理学研究中概念化和运作，并具体强调了在神经生物学层面上运营种族和种族主义的承诺和挑战。然后，研究人员将使用这些决定来阐明有关隐性偏见的神经心理学研究的当前和未来干预措施和政策机会。该项目的结果将有助于更好地评估通过在社会中使用神经科学研究提出的道德问题，这将有助于制定和实施有关不平等和歧视的制度和社会政策。该项目可提高专注于科学和技术的道德，法律和社会影响的代表性不足的少数群体研究人员的数量。技术摘要该项目是最早研究神经科学研究中种族和调用种族的经验科学项目之一。它将通过洞悉这些新的认知和行为影响影响与种族实践的新神经理解的神经理解的方式，从而为基因组学和种族的良好科学，技术和社会（STS）研究做出重大贡献。这项研究将通过关注与隐性偏见研究中的社会动态的方式来解决生物社会研究模型的日益增长的使用。该研究将认真对待大脑的重要性和社会现实。通过这样做，它将描述如何通过神经研究来定义，操作和转化（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道德挑战，并阐明跨学科STS奖学金的优势和限制，该奖学金集中在大脑与社会性之间的相互关系上。