Implicit Bias in our Reasoning Processes: A Threat to our Epistemic Lives

Here's the abstract:
With recent research on implicit bias (IB), it has come to our attention that stereotypes, which people do not report verbally, have explicit and observable effects in our lives. These effects have found to directly foster social unfairness. To understand the complexity of IB, I present cases where IB causes self-doubt on an individual’s reasoning and I rely on Elizabeth Fricker’s epistemic self-trust to argue for an account of IB. My account includes how IB affects our very sense of self as it describes how our ability to trust in our reasoning processes gets questioned once we become aware of our IB. Thus, IB also affects our epistemic lives (the part of our lives where we interact with the world as potential knowers) by forcing us to doubt whether our decision-making processes can be unbiased. Since we cannot trust to act fairly when deciding what to do when our implicit biases affect our reasoning, IB also hinders our epistemic abilities, and this consequently undermines our epistemic life.