MAHZARIN R. BANAJI, PH.D. - Psychologist
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Mahzarin R. Banaji received her PH.D. from Ohio State University (1986), was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, and taught at Yale University from 1986 until 2001, where she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2002, she moved to Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Dr. Banaji is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Psychological Association (Division 1,3 8 and 9), and of the American Psychological Society. She served as Secretary of the American Psychological Society, on the Board of Scientific Affairs of the APA, and on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She has served as Associate Editor of Psychological Review and of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and is currently Co-Editor of Essays in Social Psychology. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, among them Psychological Science, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and The DuBois Review

With Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek, she maintains an educational website that has accumulated over 2.5 million completed tasks, measuring automatic attitudes and beliefs involving self, other individuals, and social groups. Dr. Banaji studies human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social context. Her focus is primarily on thinking and feeling systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode. Her work relies on cognitive/affective behavioral measures and neuroimaging with which she explores the implications of her work for theories of individual responsibility and social justice.