Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
Chapter 5 - Favor Mindfulness Over Blunt, Ineffective Tools
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.
These bias habit-breaking skills segments of Diverse Joy are great supplementary learning to this chapter:
Mindfulness from season 3, episode 6
Don’t Try to Bluntly Suppress Stereotypes from “The Joy of Learning via Analogy In Media”
Don’t Try to Ignore Group Statuses from “Living Black History”, with guest Bernie Hoes (an educator from Madison, Wisconsin)
And Don’t Try to Rely on Personal Objectivity from “Discovering Room To Grow”, with guest Sandy Eichel (a public speaker and financial advisor)
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An excerpt from the Bias Habit-Breaking Training reviewing three ineffective tools to combat bias
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!
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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 6 - “Understanding Gender Bias and Gender Similarities”, corresponds to chapter 5.