Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt was born on 1965 and is an American social psychologist who is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.
17 Facts About Jennifer Eberhardt
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Jennifer Eberhardt has contributed to research on unconscious bias, including demonstrating how racial imagery and judgment affect culture and society within the domain of social justice.
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Jennifer Eberhardt has provided directions for future research in this domain and brought attention to mistreatment in communities due to biases.
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Jennifer 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.
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Jennifer Eberhardt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of five children.
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Jennifer Eberhardt noticed that she and her non African-American classmates experienced life differently, such as her father and brothers being pulled over more frequently than other residents.
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Jennifer Eberhardt then attended Harvard University where she received her MA in 1990 and PhD in 1993.
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Jennifer Eberhardt is married to Ralph Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford University.
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From July 1993 to July 1994, Jennifer Eberhardt was a postdoctoral research associate in the Social and Personality Psychology Division at the University of Massachusetts.
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Jennifer Eberhardt was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, from September 1994 to June 1995, where she researched the impact of stereotype threat on academic performance.
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From July 1995 to June 1998, Jennifer Eberhardt worked as an assistant professor at Yale University in the Department of Psychology and the Department of African Studies and African-American Studies.
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Jennifer Eberhardt is the co-director and faculty co-founder of Stanford's SPARQ program.
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Golby and Jennifer Eberhardt's research focused on why humans are more likely to recognize people in their own race over those in another race.
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Jennifer Eberhardt's research demonstrated how the automatic effect of implicit racial stereotypes impacts one's visual processing.
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The research done by Jennifer Eberhardt demonstrated not only the mistreatment of African-American detainees, but the lack of civil rights available to members of other lower-status groups who are often misjudged as aggressors.
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Okonofua and Jennifer Eberhardt examined teachers' responses to students' misbehaviors, and whether there were racial differences in how these responses were directed.
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In 2016, Okonofua, Walton, and Jennifer Eberhardt ran a meta-analysis on past research literature examining how social-psychological factors play a role in the structure of racial disparities in teacher-student relationships.