MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture - Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology, Harvard)

April 13, 2015
MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture - Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology, Harvard)

MBB Distinguished Lecture: Group Love (Mahzarin Banaji)
Monday, April 13, 5 p.m., Yenching Auditorium (aka 118) in Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Talk Abstract: From the moment of birth, every human is a member of many groups. By the opportunities and liberties offered or snatched away, group memberships shape lives ubiquitously and enduringly.  Group memberships create affiliations of “us” and “them” and sensitivity to status in social hierarchies.  Human minds reflect these in myriad attitudes and beliefs, which contain deep knowledge about the hidden presence of group love, its surprising absence, and its opposite.  Unveiling them, through a diversity of methods now available to experimental psychology, allows understanding the natural and cultivated ways in which group love is elusively tuned up and down.

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