{"id":667,"date":"2021-05-10T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:11:04","slug":"implicit-bias-in-hiring-practices-at-game-companies-with-celia-hodent-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Episode 15: Implicit bias in hiring practices at game companies with Celia Hodent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Release Date: June 29, 2021]&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>When people point out sexism in games and game culture, the classic suggested prescription is that game companies need to hire more women.&nbsp; The idea is that more women in game companies will bring a voice to call out sexist aspects of games, and bring a greater demand to protect female players from a somewhat toxic gaming culture.&nbsp; Women make up about half of players, so why are there still so few women working in video games?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An important part of the problem is how sexism can creep into the hiring process even when game companies try to just hire the best qualified candidates.&nbsp; We discuss this issue with our very first guest, Celia Hodent &#8211; user-experience&nbsp; (UX) designer, writer and speaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hodent has a PHD in psychology, and has worked for Ubisoft, Lucas Arts and Epic Games.&nbsp; She\u2019s the author of \u201cthe Gamer\u2019s Brain\u201d and \u201cThe Psychology of Games\u201d and has excellent webinar about how our implicit biases hinder our efforts to make our industry more diverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about her at: <a href=\"https:\/\/celiahodent.com\/\">https:\/\/celiahodent.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1oHBCEbbut4mEA6cL0XccZ?theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: June 29, 2021]&nbsp;&nbsp;When people point out sexism in games and game culture, the classic suggested prescription is that game companies need to hire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,18,64,63,26],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-celia-hodent","tag-ethics","tag-implicit-bias","tag-sexism-in-video-games","tag-video-game-ethics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/My-Post-4.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}