Publications

Books

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do By Jennifer Eberhardt

From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward. Watch the TED talk here.

Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World By Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner

As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage. Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

Bias and Culture

The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. By Cecilia Ridgeway and Hazel Rose Markus

Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases. Psychological Review. By Sapna Cheryan and Hazel Rose Markus

People are Culturally Shaped Shapers: The Psychological Science of Culture and Culture Change. Handbook of Cultural Psychology. By Hazel Rose Markus and MarYam Hamedani

Neural Adaptation to Faces Reveals Racial Outgroup Homogeneity Effects in Early Perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Brent Hughes, Nicholas Camp, Jesse Gomez, Vaidehi Natu, Kalanit Grill-Spector, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Understanding Culture Clashes and Catalyzing Change: A Culture Cycle Approach. Frontiers in Psychology. By MarYam Hamedani and Hazel Rose Markus

Criminal Justice

Developing Speech Processing Pipelines for Police Accountability. Interspeech 2023. By Anjalie Field, Prateek Verma, Nay San, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Dan Jurafsky

Escalated Police Stops of Black Men Are Linguistically and Psychologically Distinct in Their Earliest Moments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Eugenia Rho, Maggie Harrington, Yuyang Zhong, Reid Pryzant, Nick Camp, Dan Jurafsky, and Jennifer Eberhardt

The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. By Nick Camp, Rob Voigt, Dan Jurafsky, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Implicit Bias, the Power of Institutions, and How to Reduce Racial Disparities in Policing. Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at Racial Prejudice in the US Criminal Justice System. By Rebecca Hetey

The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves: Racial Disparities and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Justice System. Current Directions in Psychological Science. By Rebecca Hetey and Jennifer Eberhardt

Detecting Institutional Dialog Acts in Police Traffic Stops. Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics. By Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Camilla Griffiths, Hang Su, Prateek Verma, Nelson Morgan, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Dan Jurafsky

Principled Policing: A Path to Building Better Police-Community Relations. By Sarah Lyons-Padilla, MarYam Hamedani, Hazel Rose Markus, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Language from Police Body Camera Footage Shows Racial Disparities in Officer Respect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Rob Voigt, Nicholas Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, William Hamilton, Rebecca Hetey, Camilla Griffiths, David Jurgens, Dan Jurafsky, and Jennifer Eberhardt

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Strategies for Change: Research Initiatives and Recommendations to Improve Police-Community Relations in Oakland, Calif. By Jennifer Eberhardt (Editor)

Data for Change: A Statistical Analysis of Police Stops, Searches, Handcuffings, and Arrests in Oakland, Calif., 2013-2014. By Rebecca Hetey, Benoît Monin, Amrita Maitreyi, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Principled Policing: Procedural Justice and Implicit Bias Training. By Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Hazel Rose Markus, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Economic Mobility

Enculturating the Science of International Development: Beyond the WEIRD Independent Paradigm. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. By Catherine Thomas and Hazel Rose Markus

Mitigating Welfare-Related Prejudice and Partisanship Among U.S. Conservatives with Moral Reframing of a Universal Basic Income Policy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. By Catherine Thomas, Hazel Rose Markus, Ellen Reinhart, and Gregory Walton

Toward a Science of Delivering Aid with Dignity: Experimental Evidence and Local Forecasts from Kenya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Catherine Thomas, Nicholas Otis, Justin Abraham, Hazel Rose Markus, and Gregory Walton

Race Influences Professional Investors’ Financial Judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Hazel Rose Markus, Ashby Monk, Sid Radhakrishna, Radhika Shah, Norris "Daryn" Dodson IV, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Measuring Mobility from Poverty. By Gregory Acs, Amrita Maitreyi, Alana Conner, Hazel Rose Markus, Nisha Patel, Sarah Lyons-Padilla, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Education

The Dynamic Nature of Student Discipline and Discipline Disparities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Sean Darling-Hammond, Michael Ruiz, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Jason Okonofua

Believing that Prejudice Can Change Increases Children's Interest in Interracial Interactions. Developmental Science. By Kristin Pauker, Evan Apfelbaum, Carol Dweck, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Conversations about Race in Black and White US Families: Before and After George Floyd’s Death. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Nicky Sullivan, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Steven Roberts

The Development of Race Effects in Face Processing From Childhood Through Adulthood: Neural and Behavioral Evidence. Developmental Science. By Golijeh Golarai, Dara Ghahremani, Anders Greenwood, John Gabrieli, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Passion Matters but Not Equally Everywhere: Predicting Achievement from Interest, Enjoyment, and Efficacy in 59 Societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By Xingyu Li, Miaozhe Han, Geoffrey Cohen, and Hazel Rose Markus

Difference-Education: Improving Disadvantaged Students’ Academic Outcomes by Changing their Theory of Differences. Handbook of Wise Interventions: How Social-Psychological Insights Can Help Solve Problems. By Nicole Stephens, MarYam Hamedani, and Sarah Townsend

Difference Matters: Teaching Students a Contextual Theory of Difference Can Help Them Succeed. Perspectives on Psychological Science. By Nicole Stephens, MarYam Hamedani, and Sarah Townsend

Community Safety Initiative Summer Internship Program. By MarYam Hamedani, Amrita Maitreyi, Rebecca Hetey, and Sheryl Evans Davis

A Vicious Cycle: A Social–Psychological Account of Extreme Racial Disparities in School Discipline. Perspectives on Psychological Science. By Jason Okonofua, Gregory Walton, and Jennifer Eberhardt

Health

Physical Workplaces and Human Well-Being: A Mixed-Methods Study to Quantify the Effects of Materials, Windows, and Representation on Biobehavioral Outcomes. Building and Environment. By Isabella Douglas, Elizabeth Murnane, Lucy Zhang Bencharit, Basma Altaf, Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa, Jackie Yang, Meg Ackerson, Charu Srivastava, Michael Cooper, Kyle Douglas, Jennifer King, Pablo Paredes, Nicholas Camp, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Nicole Ardoin, Hazel Rose Markus, James Landay, and Sarah Billington