[Values-ethics] Professor Banaji Talk

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:39 PM
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Subject: Professor Banaji Talk

Mahzarin Rustum Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in
the Department of Psychology and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will give a talk on "Mind Bugs: The
Psychology of Ordinary Prejudice."
Harvard Club of New York City, 35 West 44th Street, New York, NY Thursday,
March 2, 2006
5:45 p.m. reception and 7:00 p.m. talk in Harvard Hall Dinner in the
Presidents Room following the talk (limited seating) $10 talk only, $70 talk
and dinner

Mahzarin Banaji received her PhD from Ohio State University in 1986 and
taught at Yale University until 2001. She studies human thinking and feeling
as it unfolds in social context. Her focus is on systems that operate in
implicit or unconscious mode and their relationship to conscious social
cognition. She is interested in people's assessments of themselves and
others that reflect thoughts and feelings—often unintended—about
their social group membership (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender, class).
>From such study, she asks about the social consequences of unintended
thought and feeling, and its implications for theories of individual
responsibility and social justice. 
In Professor Banaji's talk, Mind Bugs: The Psychology of Ordinary Prejudice,
she will discuss the mechanics of mental processes that operate without
conscious awareness, intention, or control. Her work with a research tool
that reveals unconscious preferences in a rather blunt manner, shows that
they can sit—at one level—in contradiction with consciously
endorsed preferences. From such study of attitudes and beliefs of adults and
children, Banaji asks about the social and moral consequences of unintended
thought and feeling. She uses cognitive/affective behavioral measures and
neuroimaging (fMRI) to explore the implications for theories of individual
responsibility and social justice. 
The research tool used by Professor Banaji is available (in a vastly
simplified form) at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/. It offers
estimates of automatic preferences toward social groups, political
candidates, and academic orientation. 




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