Dr. Cox has a forthcoming book from the University of California Press!
Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
The book is now available for preorder at Amazon or Barnes & Noble!
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 7 (releasing April 2026) - “Reclaiming Native American Heritage” - and episode 8 (releasing May 2026) - “Neurospicy and Thriving: ADHD and Neurodiversity” - correspond to chapter 6.
Chapter 6 - Tools to Retrain Your Mind
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.
On Diverse Joy podcast, Dr. Cox and his co-host, Dr. Amber Nelson, have discussed many relevant tools for retraining your mind, across numerous episodes; these bias habit-breaking skill segments are where you’ll these effective, useful tools:
Detect, Reflect, and Reject Bias and Rehearse Replacements are both covered in the upcoming season 3 episode “Reclaiming Native American Heritage” with guest Jack Pepple, a member of the Santee Sioux nation
Consider Situational Explanations for Behavior and Do Perspective-Taking are both discussed in “Neurospicy and Thriving: ADHD and Neurodiversity”
Consider Situational Explanations is also covered in “Finding the Joy in Cultural Humility, Responsiveness, and Justice”
Perspective Taking, especially as it relates to disabilities, in “Better Together: Disability Desegregation in Schools” with guest Nicki Vander Meulen, Esq.
Detect, Reflect, and Reject Bias, as well as Replacing Stereotypes from “Learning about Trans* and Nonbinary Identities” with guest Sandy Eichel
Retrain Reactions, as especially linking Detect/Reflect/Reject to its origins in evidence-based mental health therapies, is discussed in “You Can't Tell Just By Looking: Breaking Assumptions About ‘Gaydar’”
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