Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 1, 2023
Bias awareness and the motivation to be fair matter
Realizing and caring that our perception of fairness on any given issue is egocentric involves self-awareness, the very foundation of emotional intelligence.
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
Words mean different things to different people, and there is more than one definition of “bias.” The definition I use is “an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment.” The reason I use that definition is because when people think or say something is biased, they tend to mean that they perceive it as unfair. Words have meaning, people act in accordance with that meaning, and people tend to understand bias to mean that something is unfair.
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