Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
Chapter 2 - Bias Habit Building Blocks: Expectations and Emotions
Chapters 1-10 of the book will include Skills Summary sections to help you review what you’ve learned in each chapter of the book.
Relevant main discussion topic segments of Diverse Joy include:
The brain’s reward system involvement in stereotyping from “The Brain’s Wicked Reward System and Overcoming Stereotypes for Good”
Discomfort when your habits are disrupted from “Discovering Room To Grow”
And, a related bias habit-breaking skills segment is Questioning Assumptions when they come to mind and noticing expectations - from “Questioning Colonialist Assumptions” (season 2, episode 2).
Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
By William T. L. Cox, PhD is now available from the University of California Press!
This popular press book is available now at Amazon. Barnes & Noble, or wherever you get books.
Season 3 of the Diverse Joy® podcast, which releases October 2025-November 2026 was designed to match the chapters of the book. Season 3, Episode 2 - “The Brain’s Wicked Reward System and Overcoming Stereotypes for Good”, corresponds to chapter 2.