Marvin W. Goldstein Lecture Series

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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Speaker: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Ph.D.

Mahzarin Banaji is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Previously, Mahzarin was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, Herbert Simon Fellow of the Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Philosophical Society. She has received recognition for teaching excellence from both Yale and Harvard. Mahzarin is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, APA’s Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, APS’s William James Fellow Award for “a lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology” the Cattell Fellow Award for “a lifetime of applied psychological research” and the Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice. She is the recipient of seven honorary degrees, the Golden Goose Award from the United States Congress, and the Atkinson Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. She is a co-author of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People.

The event is free and open to the public.