"Her research has helped establish and quantify the role that unconscious processes play in governing human social actions and judgments of others… For her ground-breaking contributions to understanding implicit social cognition” Prof Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University was named a winner of the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. She has been instumental in introducing the term "implicit bias,” and developing the Implicit Association Test.
Instituted by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) which, according to Banaji, is "the country’s most prestigious honorific society of scientists,” the awards ceremony in Washington DC on May 1, 2022 will be......