Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, March 18th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Jennifer Eberhardt, “Racial Bias: Here and There, Then and Now.”
Eberhardt is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, with dual appointments as William R. Kimball Professor and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business.
She holds a PhD and an AM in Psychology from Harvard University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. Eberhardt has been at Stanford since 1998. Prior to Stanford, she taught at Yale University. Her research seeks to understand how racial bias and inequality function across contexts, and she works with industry partners to address racial disparities and heal social divides.
Among other honors, Eberhardt was inducted to the Heritage Wall at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology (2025) and recognized in 2024 for her contributions to the San Francisco chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE). Her 2021 article, co-authored with Walton, G. et al, “Lifting the Bar: A relationship-orienting intervention reduces recidivism among children reentering school from juvenile detention” in Psychological Science, was awarded the Cialdini Award in 2022 for the single best field experiment of the year from the Society for Personality & Social Psychology.
At RSF, Eberhardt is working on a series of articles drawing on police body-worn camera footage to examine police interactions with the public during traffic stops. Using large language models and related processing tools, Eberhardt is comparing how language used by police varies during traffic stops in areas with and without a history of redlining.
Additionally, she is investigating the effectiveness of a statewide intervention in California, which requires officers to state the reason for a vehicle stop before questioning drivers as well as the effectiveness of trainings on the dangers of implicit bias and the importance of interacting with the public in ways that are procedurally just.