Tag: Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Nation & World

    5 named Harvard College Professors

    Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Breakthrough

    In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reinforcement Theory

    Mahzarin R. Banaji Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inklings of suicide

    Two new computerized tests, developed at Harvard, show promise in predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide.

    3 minutes