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...election draws near, undecided voters are increasingly under pressure to select their choice—or have they already made up their minds? In many cases, the answer is yes, according to data collected by Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, in conjunction with professor Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and professor Tony Greenwald of the University of Washington. The three scientists are collaborating on “Project Implicit,” a research Web site which allows visitors to complete various tests in order to gauge their subconscious associations. The tests cover a wide variety...
...1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable...
Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, an expert in the field of bias study who has developed tests to measure bias in the past, said it’s no surprise that physicians are susceptible to bias in their work...
...helpful to study kids, because it helps you to focus on how and when things like this come on line.” Olson’s study, co-authored by Berkman professor of psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71, Cabot professor of social ethics in psychology Mahzarin Banaji, and Stanford professor of psychology Carol S. Dweck, was conducted in two parts. The first part presented the study subjects with descriptions of individuals and asked them to rate their affinity for them on a 1-6 scale. The average rating for “beneficiaries of uncontrollable good...
...being manipulated by hidden prejudices? Research by Mahzarin Banaji suggests you probably are. On Friday afternoon, Banaji, the Cabot professor of social ethics in psychology, presented research about the prevalence of “mind bugs,” or implicit biases that prejudice people without their knowledge, to an audience representing a wide range of disciplines. In one example of a study demonstrating prevalent perceptual biases, Banaji, who is also the Pforzheimer professor at the Radcliffe Institute, had the audience count the number of passes in a clip showing basketball players. The audience was so focused on the players...