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Hearing footsteps behind you as you walk down the street,

noticing a black person and immediately putting your cell phone away

lest you get robbed.

Giving the plush quant-heavy assignment to your Asian

employee because they must be good at math. These are all examples that my

students shared with me. Snap judgments they made or fell victim to.

The uncomfortable truth is that we all hold stereotypes

that can lead to biased or discriminatory behavior

in both life and work. In fact, my research on bias has brought me face to face

with some of my own biases. So how do we stop ourselves from making snap

judgments and assumptions when they're so automatic

that we might not even see them.

Welcome to the TED Business Podcast. I'm your host to Madupa Akenola,

Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School,

and Director of the San Francisco,

and Company Center for Leadership and Ethics.

In her talk at TED 2020, Jennifer Eberhart explains why we make these gross generalizations

and discusses the benefits and costs because these types of

biases can be harmful personally and for our businesses. Jennifer Eberhart is a

social psychology professor at Stanford University.

She researches the consequences of the psychological association between race and crime.

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