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...study, by researchers at Yale University and Toronto's York University, involved 120 nonblack students who were told they were being recruited for an experiment on team-oriented problem-solving. They were broken into three groups. The members of the first group were individually placed in a room with a black actor and a white actor, both posing as fellow participants in the study, and watched as the black actor slightly bumped the white actor while leaving the room. After the black actor had left, the white actor played out one of three scenarios, saying, "I hate it when black...
...People expect to feel much more emotion than they actually do. We are good at rationalizing responses," says Jack Dovidio, a Yale psychologist and co-author of the study. "If there are certain costs - we don't want to get involved, maybe because we aren't quite as committed to equality as we thought we were - then we go through a series of rationalizations: 'Maybe it wasn't that bad.' That's the danger - that we explain everything away. It justifies our behavior...
...plane to Columbus, Ohio, leaving the psychophysics and Marxist sociology she had been studying in India behind. After receiving her Ph.D. from Ohio State in social psychology, Banaji traveled around the country as research assistant, instructor, and post-doc fellow in several different institutes, before she finally settled at Yale to study unconscious bias...
...group like the JEHT Foundation, which was sponsoring numerous critically important human rights initiatives,” Giannini said in an e-mail. Over the years, JEHT has supported international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International as well as human rights programs at major universities including Yale, Columbia, and Brandeis. The alleged Ponzi scheme run by Madoff has paralyzed a number of charitable organizations, including the Picower Foundation, which consequently terminated funding for a diabetes research project at Harvard Medical School in December. —Staff writer Weiqi Zhang can be reached at wzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...precocious 18-year-old graduated with distinction from Yale College. After serving briefly in the U.S. Army, Huntington continued his education at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D...