Kirsten Morehouse on Stereotypes
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How can stereotypes — particularly those relating to gender and ethnicity — drive us to draw the wrong conclusions? If I say the word American, you’re more likely to think...
show moreIt’s something that my guest Kirsten Morehouse has researched. Kirsten is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, with a secondary field in Data Science, where she works under the supervision of Professor Mahzarin Banaji .
Kirsten is also the co-president of Harvard’s Women in Psychology (WiP). She uses behavioural and computational methods to study humans’ attitudes and beliefs about social groups, especially beliefs that conflict with consciously held values or ground-truth data.
I’m interested in this subject because although stereotypes — like other forms of bias — can serve a useful purpose, or at least did for our ancestors — they can also drive very poor decision-making. If we want to mitigate human risk and get the best out of people, we need to recognise where inaccurate stereotypes cloud our judgement.
To learn more about Kirsten and her research, visit her website: https://kirstenmorehouse.wordpress.com/
To read the surgeon riddle research we referred to on the show:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100044
For more on her colleague Tessa Charlesworth: https://tessaescharlesworth.wordpress.com/
To learn more about Caroline Criado Perez and her book ‘Invisible Women’ - https://carolinecriadoperez.com/
To pre-order my book ‘Humanizing Rules: Bringing BeSci to Ethics & Compliance’ visit:
Direct from the publisher US: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Humanizing+Rules%3A+Bringing+Behavioural+Science+to+Ethics+and+Compliance-p-9781394177400
Direct from the publisher DE/CH/AU: https://www.wiley-vch.de/de?option=com_eshop&view=product&isbn=9781394177400&title=Humanizing%20Rules
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