The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions Author Calvin Lai, Jaclyn Lisnek Publication Year 2023 Type Journal Article Abstract U.S. police departments have attempted to address racial inequities in policing with diversity training. However, little research has evaluated whether these trainings are effective at changing officers' beliefs, motivations, and actions. To examine their efficacy, we tested a day-long implicit-bias-oriented diversity training designed to increase U.S. police officers' knowledge of biases, concerns about bias, and use of evidence-based strategies to mitigate bias (total N = 3,764). The training was immediately effective at increasing knowledge about bias, concerns about bias, and intentions to address bias, relative to baseline. However, the effects were fleeting. Although the training was linked to higher knowledge for at least 1 month, it was ineffective at durably increasing concerns or strategy use. These findings suggest that diversity trainings as they are currently practiced are unlikely to change police behavior. We conclude with theorizing about what organizations and training programs could do for greater impact. Keywords bias, diversity training, intervention, open data, open materials, policing, prejudice, preregistered, race Journal Psychol. Sci. Volume 34 Pages 424–434 Date Published 04/2023 Full text A description of data collection and analysis can be found in the pre-registration for this study: https://osf.io/d29ps Type of Prejudice/Bias Race/Ethnicity Transgender/Genderqueer Country United States Method Field Setting Work Google ScholarBibTeX