Implicit Bias and Implications for U.S. Marine Corps Performance Evaluations and Promotion Selection Boards

Abstract

In the last two decades, research surrounding implicit bias has expanded drastically, informing current understanding about the effects of implicit bias in policing, the courts, healthcare, education, and human resources. Viable techniques to prevent its effects in society are relevant to how the Marine Corps evaluates its Marines. With the knowledge of how implicit bias can cause errors in human cognition, the Marine Corps can take steps to reduce bias in performance evaluations, increasing their accuracy, and prevent implicit bias from influencing evaluations made by promotion selection boards.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2019
Accession Number
AD1177262

Entities

People

  • David J. Driscoll

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Careers
  • Cognition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discrimination
  • Employment
  • Human Behavior
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Mental Processes
  • Military Personnel
  • Minority Groups
  • Personnel Management
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Warfare
  • Word Processors

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Regression Analysis.