The September 28th Lab Seminar was led by Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clark Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Edmond J. Safra Research Associate. Banaji’s presentation included a hypothetical scenario involving a prospective graduate student and potential conflict of interest, as well as a discussion of some recent research her lab has conducted on psychological responses to money.
The scenario featured a prospective PhD applicant (“H”) to a psychology lab who is also the co-founder of a commercial startup called “Staffingscience.com.” If admitted to...
Conflicts of interest have emerged as a core ethical challenge in business, government, law, medicine, and academia, among others, undermining public confidence and breeding public cynicism. Typically, under the constructs of traditional economics, conflicts of interest are thought about purely as an issue of...
The second Edmond J. Safra Lab Seminar, which met on September 22nd, 2010, featured a presentation by Professor Mahzarin Banaji, followed by a group discussion of her research. Professor Banaji presented her research on implicit bias, as determined by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Her findings demonstrate that, despite explicit assertions to the contrary, most of us harbor implicit biases, which may take the form of racism, sexism or classism, among others. Such findings may be...
Opening Comments David Korn; Introduction to the Symposium Max H. Bazerman; Mind Bugs: The Hidden Biases of Good People" Mahzarin Banaji; "The Neurobehavioral Basis of Judgment Bias and Its Mitigation" P. Read Montague"...
