Marvin W. Goldstein Lecture Series

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Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Ph.D.

Betsy Levy Paluck is the Eugene Higgins Professor in the Department of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research is concerned with the reduction of prejudice and conflict, including ethnic and political conflict, youth conflict in schools, and violence against women. She uses large-scale field experiments to test interventions that target individuals' perceived norms and behavior about conflict and tolerance, including mass media and peer-to-peer interventions. Professor Paluck is a 2017 Macarthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy for Political and Social Science, and has been the recipient of the Princeton University Graduate Mentor award and the Cialdini Award for field research.

The event is free and open to the public.

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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.

Speaker: Rebecca Carey, Ph.D.

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Yvonne Theater, Fine Arts

Dr. Rebecca Carey is a member of the faculty in the Psychology Department at Princeton University. From a sociocultural approach, she investigates how experiences of societal and economic adversity impact people’s close relationships, and how close relationships, in turn, can impact socioeconomic disparities in health and well-being. She directs the Adversity and Relationships in Context (ARC) Lab, where she and colleagues examine a wide range of topics, including social class, social networks, self and identity, health disparities, first-generation college students, and cross-class interactions. Before coming to Princeton, Dr. Carey completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Speaker: Margaret Bull Kovera, Ph.D.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Yvonne Theater, Fine Arts

Dr. Margaret Bull Kovera received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Presidential Scholar and a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her research focuses on the legal system and addresses issues of eyewitness identification, jury selection, racial bias in the criminal justice system and the behavior of judges, attorneys, police officers, witnesses and jurors. Dr. Kovera’s work has been published in many of the top journals in Psychology and Law. She has authored and edited a number of books including The Psychology of Juries, Children, Social Science and the Law, and Evaluating Eyewitness Identification.

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Speaker: Dolly Chugh, Ph.D.

Professor Chugh is a member of the faculty in the Management and Organizations Department at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Her research integrates theories and methods of social psychology, behavioral economics, judgment and decision making, sociology, and education. Her studies have focused on unconscious bias and how and why most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality.” Professor Chugh is the author of numerous book chapters, journal articles and her first book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias.