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Because subjects with a history of interracial dating saw almost no persistent fear reaction to the faces of other races, the study’s authors—Ebert, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, New York University (NYU) Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Elizabeth A. Phelps, and NYU graduate student Andreas Olsson—concluded that fear learning is influenced by one’s social group, and thus may be socially conditioned...
Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji first performed an “implicit attitudes” test—which tests the unconscious associations people make—on the entire audience. She explained that the audience’s comparative difficulty in associating scientific words with female names reflected an unconscious bias that associated males with science...
...need to think about affirmative action in a different way—not in terms of correcting a past wrong, but as evening the playing field,” Banaji said...
...He’s just flat-out wrong when he argues in favor of genetic differences,” said Banaji. “As a psychologist who studies these issues as opposed to someone who merely has opinions, I would say that President Summers has not read the literature...
...Banaji nevertheless said she would not vote “no confidence” in Summers if a vote were held at the meeting...