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ReviewAnnual review of psychology2022

Diversity Training Goals, Limitations, and Promise: A Review of the Multidisciplinary Literature.

Patricia G Devine, Tory L Ash

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Review in Annual review of psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  13. Paradox of diversity in the collective brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  16. Future Directions in Mental Health Treatment with Stigmatized Youth.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Patricia G DevineDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA; email: pgdevine@wisc.edu.
Tory L AshDepartment of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA; email: tash02@syr.edu.

Funding

Breaking the Prejudice Habit: An Evidence-Based Campus-Wide Intervention EffortR35GM127043 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DEVINE, PATRICIA G · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127043
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review, we utilize a narrative approach to synthesize the multidisciplinary literature on diversity training. In examining hundreds of articles on the topic, we discovered that the literature is amorphous and complex and does not allow us to reach decisive conclusions regarding best practices in diversity training. We note that scholars of diversity training, when testing the efficacy of their approaches, too often use proxy measures for success that are far removed from the types of consequential outcomes that reflect the purported goals of such trainings. We suggest that the enthusiasm for, and monetary investment in, diversity training has outpaced the available evidence that such programs are effective in achieving their goals. We recommend that researchers and practitioners work together for future investigations to propel the science of diversity training forward. We conclude with a roadmap for how to create a more rigorous and relevant science of diversity training.

Indexed as

GoalsHumansbias literacycultural competencediversity educationdiversity trainingprejudice reduction interventionsunconscious bias training

Identifiers

PMID34280325
PMCPMC8919430

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