Jennifer Eberhardt: Understanding Bias
How biased are you? According to Jennifer Eberhardt, we live in a world where unconscious bias and innate prejudices affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behavior. These stereotypes can dramatically influence and impact our education, employment, housing and our criminal justice system.
Eberhardt has worked extensively as a psychologist and consultant with numerous companies and law enforcement agencies. She shares her groundbreaking research, covering courtrooms, boardrooms, classrooms and prisons, to better understand and invoke change at all levels in society.
Eberhardt is the co-founder and co-director of SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), a university initiative that uses social psychological research to address significant social problems. She was also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant.
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In association with Wonderfest
Eberhardt photo by Nana Kofi Nti
Jennifer Eberhardt, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Stanford University; Author, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
In conversation with Judge LaDoris Cordell
(ret.)
