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A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining tools from memory science and artificial intelligence to change how we report workplace harassment and bias. She shares three lessons to apply if you've been harassed or discriminated against -- and introduces Spot: a free, anonymous, online reporting tool that helps empower victims.

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0:00.0

This TED Talk features psychologist Julia Shaw recorded live at TEDx London, 2018.

0:09.0

Me Too and Times Up have highlighted that harassment and discrimination are a shockingly common part of many people's lived reality,

0:18.9

and that this reality extends into the workplace.

0:22.9

Whether in tech or finance, sports, or the service industry,

0:27.0

every day we seem to hear another story about an abuse of power

0:30.4

or another grossly inappropriate workplace behavior.

0:34.1

People are furious.

0:36.2

They're taking to Twitter and social media to voice that this must change.

0:40.3

But it's time to move beyond the hashtag.

0:43.3

It's time for us to report harassment and discrimination

0:46.3

to those who can fix this mess.

0:49.3

And it's time for us to talk about harassment in a more inclusive way,

0:53.3

not just about sexual harassment,

0:56.1

but to encourage people to come forward about harassment and discrimination based on other

1:00.7

characteristics such as age, disability, or ethnicity. Because only together can we fix

1:07.6

the underlying causes and consequences of harassment?

1:14.5

You see, most of us will at some point in our lives experience workplace harassment or discrimination.

1:17.7

Research shows that particularly women, people of color,

1:21.2

and people who openly identify as LGBTQI are likely to be targeted.

1:26.1

And for some people, this is a pervasive and persistent part of

1:28.9

their reality. And for most of these people, 98% according to some studies, most of these people

1:35.8

will never speak up and tell their employer. Too often harassment and discrimination is a

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