399: Jennifer L. Eberhardt | The Science of Why We're Biased
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a professor of psychology at Stanford University whose research explores race, bias, and inequality; she is the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.
What We Discuss with Jennifer L. Eberhardt:- What's going on in the brain that creates and maintains bias.
- How bias can alter what we feel and even what we see.
- How bias is contagious, and why we may have evolved bias in the first place.
- Why bias doesn’t just hurt the person who is on the receiving end of it.
- How we can spot bias in ourselves and act to mitigate it.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Jordan Harbanger show. |
| 0:02.5 | Well, they know that they do that, right? |
| 0:05.2 | When they see Chinese faces or African American faces |
| 0:08.6 | or what have you, but they don't expect |
| 0:11.0 | that people do that to them. |
| 0:12.2 | So white people, for example, are really surprised when I say, |
| 0:15.3 | well, I can tell white faces of partner like, what? |
| 0:18.0 | You know, they're so different. |
| 0:20.2 | And Chinese people say that to me too. |
| 0:22.1 | They read the book and they said, yeah, I had the hardest time. |
| 0:25.2 | You know, when I come to the country, you know, |
| 0:26.9 | when they're adults and said they had the hardest time |
| 0:29.5 | of being able to distinguish among white faces, |
| 0:32.4 | people think their own group is just so rich and diverse, |
| 0:35.3 | but not other groups so much. |
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