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Jennifer Eberhardt

The social psychologist on implicit bias and what police departments—and the rest of us—can do to overcome it

You open your new book, Biased, with the story of your son worrying that a fellow black passenger would blow up a plane. Why? To show how deep implicit bias is and how it can affect everyone, even a black child. This is something that everybody has to grapple with.

As a child you moved to a largely white school, and you couldn’t tell

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