Jennifer Eberhardt

Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She also serves as the William R. Kimball Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Professor (by courtesy) of Law. As co-director and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions (SPARQ), she applies behavioral science to fight bias, reduce disparities, and drive culture change. Her research focuses on race, bias, and inequality, particularly the consequences of the psychological association between race and crime. Through interdisciplinary collaborations and methods ranging from laboratory studies to field experiments, Eberhardt demonstrates how racial imagery and judgments suffuse culture and society, shaping actions and outcomes in criminal justice, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.

Eberhardt earned a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1987, an A.M. in 1990, and a Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. She taught in the Departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Yale University from 1995 to 1998 before joining Stanford in 1998. Her honors include the 2014 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences in 2016, election to the British Academy in 2022, and serving as the first African American president of the Association for Psychological Science in 2021. She is the first social scientist to receive the Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize. Her book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, was published in 2019 and received awards from the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science. Key publications include "Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017), "The Numbers Don't Speak for Themselves: Racial Disparities and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Justice System" (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2018), and "People who share encounters with racism are silenced online by humans and machines, but a guideline-reframing intervention holds promise" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024). Eberhardt has delivered talks at the White House, U.S. Department of Justice, and Supreme Court of California, collaborated with law enforcement, and her TED Talk has garnered over 3.3 million views.

Professional Email: jleberhardt@stanford.edu