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This type of bias is conscious, openly expressed, and typically expresses hostility toward outgroups.
What is blatant bias (explicit bias)?
Claude Steele defined this as the fear of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s group.
What is stereotype threat?
This analytical framework explains how overlapping identities shape discrimination and privilege.
What is intersectionality?
Communicating spatial ideas often relies not just on words, but also on these two modalities.
What are gestures and drawings/figures?
This long-term project showed that children increasingly draw scientists as women, especially after 2010.
What is the Draw-A-Scientist Project?
She was the brilliant mathematician who became NASA’s most celebrated “human computer.”
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This type of bias includes contradictory stereotypes—such as the “model minority” trope combining high achievement with low sociability.
What is ambivalent bias?
Hidden Figures reveals how Black women’s contributions often disappeared from history — an example of this named effect.
What is the Matilda Effect?
A loop that amplifies change, making a system grow or collapse faster.
What is a reinforcing (positive) feedback loop?
This historic housing practice created long-lasting racialized environmental risk zones.
What is redlining?
This typology category depicts scientists as sinister and socially irresponsible, like Dr. Moreau or Dr. Frankenstein.
What are “mad scientist” stereotypes?
This Cold War rival motivated the U.S. to accelerate the space program, pushing NASA to hire more mathematicians, including Black women.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This form of bias involves dividing people into in-group versus out-group categories, often without realizing it.
What is ambiguous (or implicit) bias?
This phenomenon occurs when liking one’s own group results in unintentional disfavor toward others.
What is in-group favoritism?
This term describes being confronted with two conflicting demands, each carrying negative consequences.
What is the double bind?
Environmental justice emphasizes documenting unequal environmental burdens on these communities.
Who are low-income and Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian communities?
Gendered toys became more common after the deregulation of children’s advertising in this decade.
What is the 1980s (specifically after 1984)?
This engineer became NASA’s first Black female engineer after petitioning a Virginia court.
Who is Mary Jackson?
This type of racism occurs when individuals avoid interacting with racial minorities while denying their own prejudice.
What is aversive racism?
Chester Pierce coined this term in 1970 to describe subtle verbal or behavioral slights toward marginalized groups.
What are microaggressions?
This belief—unconscious and unexamined—can influence who gets nominated for awards.
What is implicit (unconscious) bias?
Gamergate was justified by some as concern for “ethics in this industry.”
What is video game journalism?
According to the LEGO Play Well Study, this percentage of parents believe gender differences are driven more by society than biology. (approximate: 0/25/50/75/100%)
What is 75%?
This supervisor of the West Area Computers taught herself FORTRAN so she could lead the IBM computing section.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
This pseudoscientific belief claims empirical evidence supports racial superiority.
What is scientific racism?
In 2005, this Harvard president suggested women were underrepresented in science due to “high-powered job demands.”
Who is Lawrence Summers?
A loop that counteracts change to stabilize a system.
What is a balancing (negative) feedback loop?
This ideology blends environmentalism with racist, exclusionary beliefs and has been tied to extremist movements.
What is ecofascism?
The Finkbeiner Test is designed to eliminate this type of sexism in science journalism.
What is benevolent sexism?
Virginia’s segregation laws were part of this broader state-level system, legally enforcing racial separation.
What is Jim Crow?