https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
(Go to Demonstration)
I sent this out among my friends a couple of years ago, and recently somone asked for the link again.
I found the black vs. white race test the most interesting. Take any or all, and post your results.
My results:
I unfortunately still have a moderate preference for White-Americans than for Black Americans. I suppose knowledge is empowering, because my last test showed a high preference for whites over blacks. Since then, I've tried to always watch out for any stereotypes that unconciously popped into my head.
I think the reason I might have had this preference is that my family lived a year in Nigera when I was much younger, and our compound was attacked by armed Nigerian men looking to steal. My parents always warned us about to talking to "strange" black men, probably because they feared kidnappings, and to them the main threat seemed to come from black Americans. Sigh, my parents are probably high preference for whites, though they'd have super high preference for Indians, while I'm actually, being somewhat Americanized, more likely to prefer whites and Asians to Indians. and security was pretty tight among the rich families there. When I came to the US from India, my thoughts on blacks were probably more susceptible to reinforcement by the views in the media, having lived in a predominantly white and asian neighborhood.
I'm still trying to work on my biases. What are yours?
Edit:
This seemed like the most important question in the FAQ.
If my IAT shows automatic White preference, does that mean that I'm prejudiced?
Answer: This is a very important question. Social psychologists use the word 'prejudiced' to describe people who endorse or approve of negative attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward various out-groups. Many people who show automatic White preference on the Black-White IAT are not prejudiced by this definition. These people are apparently able to function in non-prejudiced fashion partly by making active efforts to prevent their automatic White preference from producing discriminatory behavior. However, when they relax these active efforts, these non-prejudiced people may be likely to show discrimination in thought or behavior. The question of relation between implicit and explicit attitudes is of strong interest to social psychologists, several of whom are doing research on that question for race-related attitudes.
Here's the link for the FAQ.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/faqs.html