Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
Chapter 7 - Tools To Broaden Your Input
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 bias habit-breaking skills segments of Diverse Joy include:
Season 3, episode 9 will cover Broaden Your Input via Genuine Connections
Season 3, episode 10 will cover Broaden Your Input via Physical, Digital, and Social Representations
This episode’s main discussion topic will be on the pitfalls of educational media
Broaden Your Input via Media was covered in “Joyful Representation of Interracial Relationships on TV”
As its title suggests, the episode focused on interracial relationships in media (and both hosts of Diverse Joy are the children of interracial relationships!)
Broaden Your Input via Genuine Connects in “Learning About Immigration” with guest Valeria Martinez, Esq., which had a special emphasis on friends as general and specific resources (but not tokens)
Listening with Humility from “Christmas is NOT Cancelled: Moving Past Cancel Culture”
Broaden Your Input via Images in Your Environment from “Healing and Understanding Intergenerational and Collective Traumas”
Broaden Your Input via Media, but this time with a particular focus on the importance of people telling their own stories, in the episode “Diverse People Bring Diverse Perspectives”
The following episodes of Diverse Joy had main topic discussions relevant this chapter’s focus:
You may also be interested in:
Broadening Your Input from the Bias Habit-Breaking Training video on the topic
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, episodes 9 and 10 correspond to chapter 7.
Episode 9, “What a Drag! Queens Past and Present” with guest Cynthia Mooseknuckle (Wisconsin’s premier drag personality) releases June 2026; and episode 10, “Avoiding Demotivational Traps When Consuming Educational Diversity Media” will be out in July.