Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford University,conducting research on race and inequality. She is currently the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, a psychology professor, and a faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, a university initiative to use social psychological research to address pressing social problems. Previously, she taught at Yale University. The author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, Eberhardt was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2014, she was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow and one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
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How can we overcome our own biases and stop seeing the worst in others? Psychologists and bestselling authors Jennifer Eberhardt and Adam Grant, along with CBS News’ John Dick...
Unconscious bias is at work in every aspect of our society, with subtle — and sometimes dramatic — daily repercussions, from classrooms to boardrooms to newsrooms. It has an e...
Criminal justice reform is gaining momentum across the country in the hope of turning the page on the era of mass incarceration. But even the best possible laws must be carrie...
Since 1980, the number of people incarcerated in the United States has more than quadrupled; the nation now has the largest prison population in the world. The criminal justic...