Jennifer Eberhardt

About

Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the author of the book "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do." Her research focuses on race, bias, and inequality, with a particular emphasis on how people grapple with race in various societal contexts including the criminal justice system, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. Through her work, she explores the underlying mechanisms of prejudice and its impact on perception and behavior.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Law
• History
• Gender studies
• Medicine
• Gerontology
• Biology

Selected publications

• Conversations about race in Black and White US families: Before and after George Floyd’s death

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 102 citations

  Research has shown that Black parents are more likely than White parents to have conversations about race with their children, but few studies have directly compared the frequency and content of these conversations and how they change in response to national events. Here we examine such conversations in the United States before and after the killing of George Floyd. Black parents had conversations more often than White parents, and they had more frequent conversations post-Floyd. White parents r…

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• The thin blue waveform: Racial disparities in officer prosody undermine institutional trust in the police.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2021 · 47 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  How do routine police encounters build or undermine community trust, and how might they contribute to racial gaps in citizen perceptions of the police? Procedural justice theory posits that officers' interpersonal communication toward the public plays a formative role, but experimental tests of this hypothesis have been constrained by the difficulties of measuring and manipulating this dimension of officer-citizen interactions. Officer-worn body camera recordings provide a novel means to overcom…

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• We built this culture (so we can change it): Seven principles for intentional culture change.

  American Psychologist · 2023-11-16 · 43 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  : Timing and readiness matter. While these principles may be broadly used, here they are applied to the issue of social inequality in the United States. Even though culture change feels particularly daunting in this problem area, it can also be empowering-especially when people leverage evidence-based insights and tools to reimagine and rebuild their cultures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention

  Psychological Science · 2021-10-04 · 20 citations

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  When children return to school from juvenile detention, they face a severe stigma. We developed a procedure to orient educators and students toward each other as positive relationship partners during this period. In Study 1, through a structured exercise, students reentering school powerfully articulated to an educator of their choosing their prosocial hopes for school as well as challenges they faced. In a preliminary field trial ( N = 47), presenting this self-introduction to this educator in…

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• Escalated police stops of Black men are linguistically and psychologically distinct in their earliest moments

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-05-30 · 19 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Across the United States, police chiefs, city officials, and community leaders alike have highlighted the need to de-escalate police encounters with the public. This concern about escalation extends from encounters involving use of force to routine car stops, where Black drivers are disproportionately pulled over. Yet, despite the calls for action, we know little about the trajectory of police stops or how escalation unfolds. In study 1, we use methods from computational linguistics to analyze p…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21MH066747

  NIH · $393k · 2006

• Constructing Race

  NSF · $200k · 2000–2005

Frequent coauthors

• Hazel Rose Markus

  Stanford University

  43 shared

• Alia J. Crum

  Stanford University

  37 shared

• Emerson J. Hardebeck

  Antioch University Seattle

  36 shared

• Lauren C. Howe

  Swiss Finance Institute

  36 shared

• Rebecca C. Hetey

  9 shared

• Nicholas P. Camp

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  9 shared

• Dan Jurafsky

  8 shared

• John D. E. Gabrieli

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  7 shared

Education

• B.A.

  University of Cincinnati

  1987

• Other

  Harvard University

  1990

• Ph.D.

  Harvard University

  1993

Similar researchers at Stanford University

• Jordan Gerard Starckh-230
• Leanne Williamsh-140
• Carol Dweckh-122