Jennifer Eberhardt
- Professor, Graduate School of Business
- Professor of Psychology
- Professor, by courtesy, of Law
Biography
Jennifer Eberhardt is a Professor (by courtesy) of Law and Professor in the Department of Psychology. Professor Eberhardt’s primary research interests include stereotyping, prejudice, and stigma. Her most recent research examines the nature of racial categories. She focuses on the social psychological implications of viewing race as a natural category (rather than as a socially created category) and the link between racial stereotyping and racial categorization. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University in 1993.
In the News
Course explores long-standing racial narratives and the shaping of American history, justice
Stanford Report
Eberhardt said the class returned to the Stanford campus “transformed”; she noted that both the class sessions and the field trip helped them to more accurately understand racial injustice in America. “It moved us. It connected us to one another. It inspired a desire to do more to make a…
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