Facts about Banaji Stereotype Bias
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Subsequent research by Banaji's team found that implicit stereotypes about competence and leadership cause people to rate identical résumés as more qualified when they contain traditionally male names versus female names.
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Banaji's research on intersectionality revealed that Black women face compounded implicit stereotypes combining both racial and gender biases simultaneously, experiencing stronger discrimination than predicted by either bias alone.
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Banaji's neuroimaging studies using functional MRI revealed that implicit stereotypes activate the amygdala within 200 milliseconds of exposure to social group cues, operating below conscious awareness.
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Banaji's 2016 book Blindspot documented that implicit stereotypes about age cause younger people to associate elderly individuals with concepts like death and disease rather than wisdom.
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In 2013, Banaji's research demonstrated that implicit stereotypes about women and science persist even among female scientists, with women rating identical scientific work as less competent when attributed to a female author versus a male author.
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Banaji's 2001 study showed that preschool children as young as three years old exhibited implicit racial biases on modified versions of the Implicit Association Test.
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Harvard's Project Implicit, co-founded by Banaji in 1998, revealed that 75 percent of test-takers showed stronger implicit associations favoring thin bodies over overweight bodies.
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Over 14 million people have taken the Implicit Association Test online since its 1998 launch, revealing widespread unconscious biases across race, gender, age, and disability categories.
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Mahzarin Banaji's 1995 research at Yale demonstrated that implicit associations revealed on the Implicit Association Test predicted discriminatory behavior in hiring decisions within 15 minutes of exposure.