Jennifer Eberhardt’s Work Disrupting Bias Featured in CNN, New York Times, BBC, and More!
As society continues to reflect on how to address issues of race, bias, and policing, SPARQ Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt shares her expertise and data-driven learnings from her long-term work on this issue.
On Matter of Fact, Soledad O’Brien spoke with Jennifer Eberhardt about how children gain awareness about bias: Eberhardt shares that we cannot take a colorblind approach and leave children to learn on their own; we must have proactive conversations about race. Watch a clip of the episode below!
Jennifer Eberhardt and SPARQ affiliates featured on PBS’s series Hacking Your Mind: Jacob Ward interviewed SPARQ Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt on PBS’s new series Hacking Your Mind to talk about racial disparities in police-community interactions. In this particular episode, “Living on Autopilot,” our team discusses the groundbreaking study that used body-worn camera footage and natural language processing (NLP) to examine differences between how police officers treat Black people and White people. Key collaborators and SPARQ members involved in the research include Dan Jurafsky, Rob Voigt, Nick Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rebecca Hetey, & Camilla Griffiths.
You can find this full episode of Hacking Your Mind on the PBS site. Watch a clip of the episode below!
CNN announces the SFPD’s decision to stop releasing most mugshots: Eberhardt discusses the harmful social effects of repeated exposure to mugshots of Black and Brown people in the news and on social media.
The New York Times features Eberhardt’s studies examining the public’s perception of crime: Eberhardt states, “If the only faces you’re seeing are of Black and Latino people, it can create this illusion that most Black and Latino people are committing the crimes.”
TIME for Kids spoke with Eberhardt about what children can do to fight bias and value diversity in our society: Eberhardt shares, "If we don’t talk about these things, bias will continue. Inequality will continue.”
BBC discusses how police departments are rooting out racism: They cite Eberhardt’s research on how biased assumptions and stereotypes contribute to the criminalization of Black communities.
The Stanford Social Innovation Review illuminates the need for proximate leaders to catalyze change: In her book, Biased, Eberhardt informs us that people have a tendency to perceive a sense of safety with leaders, methodologies, and diagnoses they are familiar with, highlighting the powerful influence of trust.
PBS discusses efforts to mitigate racial bias in police behavior: On disrupting circumstances that trigger bias, Eberhardt says, “Rather than simply informing people about the conditions under which bias is most likely to occur, we should be actually working to change those conditions.”
The World Economic Forum discusses companies’ pursuit to fight against bias and racial inequality in the workplace: Eberhardt’s research teaches us that to manage our bias effectively, we must slow down and act deliberately.
The Jordan Harbinger Show explores the science of racial bias: Eberhardt discusses how we can spot bias in ourselves and disrupt our own assumptions.
WHYY’s podcast, The Pulse, features Eberhardt on an episode about confronting implicit biases: Eberhardt shares personal instances of bias with her son and dissects the racial stratification that has led people to associate Blackness and crime.
