The Startling Ways Our Brains Process Racial Difference

We all know it’s harder to ID people of different races, but our bias goes so much deeper

Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
ZORA

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The Asian women were easy targets. They were a group the robbers predicted would not resist: middle-aged, frail, unfamiliar with English, and — crucially — unable to identify the black teenagers who snatched the purses…

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Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
ZORA

Professor of psychology at Stanford and author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do