Jennifer Eberhardt

Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt (born January 1, 1965) is an American social psychologist who is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Eberhardt has been responsible for major contributions on investigating the consequences of the psychological association between race and crime through methods such as field studies and laboratory studies. She has also contributed to research on unconscious bias, including demonstrating how racial imagery and judgment affect culture and society within the domain of social justice. The results from her work have contributed to training law enforcement officers and state agencies to better their judgments through implicit bias training. She has also provided directions for future research in this domain and brought attention to mistreatment in communities due to biases.

Eberhardt has authored ''Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do'', was a recipient of the 2014 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, been named one of ''Foreign Policy's'' 100 Leading Global Thinkers, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Provided by Wikipedia