Intergroup bias regulation strategies in non-Black Americans

Intergroup biases perpetuate social inequality. Bias regulation can be a useful process to set, strive toward, and evaluate progress in relation to bias regulation goals. While previous work on bias regulation has demonstrated that individuals can regulate their biases in intergroup contexts, research has yet to explore the specific strategies that individuals use to do so. To capture a range of bias regulation strategies, we introduce an adapted and expanded measure of emotion regulation to the context of bias regulation, referred to as the Intergroup Bias Regulation Questionnaire (IBRQ). Across two studies, we validate this new measure of bias regulation and aim to understand some of the relevant correlates of bias regulation strategies, such as personality, identity, and other intergroup processes. This new measurement tool offers critical insight into how people report regulating intergroup bias. Importantly, this process can be consequential since some approaches can be more harmful than others. Understanding how individuals approach bias regulation can inform future bias regulation intervention recommendations.