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Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People
Special Lecture on 'Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People'
Most human beings take seriously the idea that their behavior ought to be consistent with their stated beliefs and values. The last fifty years of research in psychology has challenged that possibility by revealing that our minds operate much of the time without conscious awareness.
Banaji will speak to the question of how well-intentioned people behave in ways that deviate from their own intentions, and how this state of affairs compromises our decisions in legal, medical, financial, political and educational contexts.
Think of this seminar more as a workshop. It is participatory, involving entertaining (and hopefully educational!) hands-on exercises. It is geared toward providing insights into how our minds work that can be surprising and therefore informative. Professor Banaji will demonstrate how subtle cues influence how we perceive others and act towards them, because we automatically rely on the social cues of our groupings like gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, class, and age.
The main purpose of the workshop is to open our eyes and minds to the newest evidence about a particular blind spot that affects our social and moral decisions and can compromise them if left unattended.
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