Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior: "Group Love" | Mahzarin Banaji

Date: 

Monday, April 13, 2015, 5:00pm

Location: 

Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue room 118, Cambridge

MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture by Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology/FAS): Group Love

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. Introduction by Jason Mitchell (Psychology/FAS). This lecture is free and open to the public. 

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