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Dr. Mahzarin Banaji is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Chair in Human Dynamics at the Santa Fe Institute (2011-2014). She previously held the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor role at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2002-2008) and taught at Yale University (1986-2002) as the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology.
Her research focuses on unconscious thinking and feeling in social contexts, particularly implicit attitudes, stereotypes, and intergroup relations in adults and children. Methodologically, she employs cognitive/affective behavioral measures, neuroimaging (fMRI), and large-scale data analysis. Her work explores applications of implicit cognition to social justice and organizational practices, including bias mitigation in AI and human decision-making.
- 2025: GPT-4o and cognitive dissonance, American=White stereotypes
- 2024: Bias in language models, implicit racial evaluations, IAT applications
- 2023: Stereotype change in corpora, regional bias correlations
Dr. Banaji is a fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychologists, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Political and Social Science (Herbert A. Simon Fellow), American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science (APS), where she served as President. She has received prestigious awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice, and the Carol and Ed Diener Award for Social Psychology.
She has mentored PhD students like Tessa Charlesworth and contributed to groundbreaking work on implicit bias, including the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Her research emphasizes bridging cognitive science with societal challenges, such as diversity in organizations and ethical AI.
