Mahzarin R. Banaji

Mahzarin R. Banaji 2015

Mahzarin Rustum Banaji (* 1956 in Secunderabad ) is an Indian - American social psychologist . She holds a professorship for social ethics at Harvard University named after Richard Clarke Cabot (1868–1939, doctor and pioneer of social work ) .

Banaji and colleagues developed the Implicit Association Test . Banaji's work is considered to be groundbreaking for the understanding of stereotypes , their neural correlate , their development in childhood and their function in maintaining existing systems (system justification theory) . She explores unconscious perceptions and their influence on attitudes towards members of outgroups as well as the quasi-automatic processes of prejudice .

Mahzarin Banaji earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from Nizam College in 1976 and a master's degree in general psychology from Osmania University (both in Hyderabad ) in 1978 . Further degrees are a Master’s degree in 1982 (Cognitive models of the self: Evidence for an encoding centrality principle) and a Ph.D. in 1985/1986. (Affect and memory: An experimental investigation) in social psychology with Anthony Greenwald at Ohio State University . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Claude M. Steele and Elizabeth F. Loftus at the University of Washington . In 1986 Banaji received a professorship at Yale University , where she was the successor to Ruth Barcan Marcus Reuben-Post-Halleck Professor of Psychology. She has been at Harvard University since 2002, from 2002 to 2008 she was also at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , and since 2011 she has also been at the Santa Fe Institute .

In 2015, Banaji published Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People with Anthony Greenwald . It has (as of July 2019) an h-index of 90.

Awards (selection)

• 1997 Guggenheim scholarship
• 2001 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2008 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2010 President of the Association for Psychological Science
• 2015 Corresponding member of the British Academy
• 2016 Donald T. Campbell Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology and American Psychological Association
• 2018 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2020 member of the American Philosophical Society

Banaji holds honorary doctorates from the following universities: Smith College (2015), University of Helsinki (2016), Colgate University (2016), Carnegie Mellon University (2017).

Web links

• Website , biographical summary and curriculum vitae (PDF, 762 kB) at Harvard University (harvard.edu)
• Biographies , publications and academic family tree of Mahzarin Rustum Banaji, PhD at academictree.org
• Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Biographical summary at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mahzarin R. Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics. In: scholar.google.de. Retrieved July 28, 2019 . 
2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Mahzarin R. Banaji. In: gf.org. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English). 
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed July 21, 2018 (English). 
4. ^ APS Past Presidents. In: psychologicalscience.org. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English). 
5. ↑ British Academy New Fellows 2015 (PDF); accessed on July 21, 2018.
6. ↑ Campbell Award - SPSP. In: spsp.org. Retrieved July 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ May 1 2018 NAS Election. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved July 21, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Mahzarin Banaji. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .