Summary of Jennifer L. Eberhardt's Biased

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Book Preview: #1 I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.

#2 I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make fun of me. But I was also not aware of the racial divide in the school, and it troubled me.

#3 I was convinced that my skin color had something to do with the disconnect I felt with other people. I went on to study social psychology, and race and identity have always been central to my research.

#4 The fusiform face area, or FFA, is a region in the brain that helps us distinguish the familiar from the unfamiliar, and it also responds more strongly to faces that are the same race as the person doing the scanning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669351566

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.

#2

I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make fun of me. But I was also not aware of the racial divide in the school, and it troubled me.

#3

I was convinced that my skin color had something to do with the disconnect I felt with other people. I went on to study social psychology, and race and identity have always been central to my research.

#4

The fusiform face area, or FFA, is a region in the brain that helps us distinguish the familiar from the unfamiliar, and it also responds more strongly to faces that are the same race as the person doing the scanning.

#5

Identifying faces is difficult for both race groups. Although Asian women are unable to distinguish between the faces of black robbery suspects, white women are able to do so at a much higher rate.

#6

The inability of the teenagers to remember the faces of the Asian women they’d targeted left the police and the Asian community feeling helpless.

#7

The Asian women the robbers targeted were easy prey because they were typically older, frail, and unfamiliar with English. They were also easy to stereotype, as black men are generally considered dangerous.

#8

The effect of categorization is so strong that it can even change the way we respond to the same face. We can be more or less likely to remember a person