Mahzarin Banaji
Department of Psychology, Harvard University
William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.
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Mahzarin Rustum Banaji was born and raised in India, in the city of Secunderabad where she attended St. Ann's High School. Her B.A. is from Nizam College and her M.A. in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1986), was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington, and taught at Yale University from 1986 until 2001 where she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2002 she moved to Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She now serves as Head Tutor in the Department of Psychology. Banaji is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 3, 8 and 9), and the American Psychological Society. She served as Secretary of the APS, on the Board of Scientific Affairs of the APA, and on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She was elected fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychologists in 2005. Banaji has served as Associate Editor of Psychological Review and of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and is currently Co-Editor of Essays in Social Psychology (Psychology Press) and the advisory board on Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience for Oxford University Press. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Third Millennium Foundation, the Mind Science Institute, the Wallace Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Banaji chaired APS's Task force on Dissemination of Psychological Science, and served on APA's Committee on the Conduct of Internet Research.
Among her awards, she has received the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, a James McKeen Cattell Fund Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mind Science Institute and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2000, her work with R. Bhaskar received the Gordon Allport Prize for Intergroup Relations, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice. With Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek, she maintains an educational and research website that has accumulated over 4 million completed tasks measuring automatic attitudes and beliefs involving self, others and social groups. It can be reached at www.implicit.harvard.edu and details of the research may be found at www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji
Banaji's research focus at present is on the origins of attitudes, beliefs, and values. She regards four sources of information as useful in pusuing this question: (a) evolution, which she hopes to understand mainly through the study of primate behavior and its resemblance to human behavior; (b)brain mechanisms, especially the cross-talk between cortical and subcortical regions, (c) development, which she studies through analyses of young children's developing preferences and (d) environments, especially their role in modulating what appear to be innate preferences.
 For all publications, visit www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji
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