In session 7 of the talks, Mahzarin Banaji (professor of social ethics & human thinking & feeling in a social context) does a good talk on how we consciously declare that we don't have any prejudice toward a particular ethnic group, religion or race, but when a test / exercise is performed the results would seem to indicate that subconsciously we do have a bias toward a race, religion or whatever the test is for. The object being that if we can learn what goes on in our mind without our conscious awareness - we can discover where those beliefs come from. The light at the end of the tunnel being that these beliefs are malleable - we can change and move forward. Some of these tests can be found at: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
As one audience member says: "whenever you learn something about yourself when you think you know yourself - its a remarkable moment."
[edit: I guess this should be in the Off-topic lounge or Society maybe. Sorry folks]
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