Academic Publications

Journal Articles

The numbers don’t speak for themselves: Racial disparities and the persistence of inequality in the criminal justice system
2018 - Current Directions in Psychological Science
Authors: Rebecca C. Hetey and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect
2017 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 6521-6526
Authors: Rob Voigt, Nicholas P. Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, William L. Hamilton, Rebecca C. Hetey, Camilla M. Griffiths, David Jurgens, Dan Jurafsky, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Received the Cozzarelli Prize in 2018, a National Academy of Sciences award for the top six papers of the year that best reflect “outstanding scientific excellence and originality”

Received the Cialdini Award, in 2018 from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, for the single best field experiment of the year

Polluting Black space
2016 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(11), 1561-1582
Authors: Courtney M. Bonam, Hilary B. Bergsieker, Jennifer L. Eberhardt

A vicious cycle: A social- psychological account of extreme racial disparities in school discipline
2016 - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(3), 381-398
Authors: Jason A. Okonofua, Gregory M. Walton, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Two-strikes: Race and the disciplining of young students
2015 - Psychological Science, 26, 617-624.
Authors: Jason A. Okonofua and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Distinct representations of configuration and part information in multiple face-selective regions of the human brain
2015 - Frontiers in Neuroscience
Authors: Golijeh Golarai1, Dara G. Ghahremani, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, and John D. E. Gabrieli

Racial Disparities in Incarceration Increase Acceptance of Punitive Policies
May 23, 2014 - Psychological Science - A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Authors: Rebecca C. Hetey and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Race and the Fragility of the Legal Distinction between Juveniles and Adults
May 23, 2012 - PLOS One
Authors: Aneeta Rattan, Cynthia S. Levine, Carol S. Dweck, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt

The Role of Social Meaning in Inattentional Blindness: When the Gorillas in Our Midst Do Not Go Unseen
June 2010 - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Authors: Rattan, A. & Eberhardt, J. L.

From Agents to Objects: Sexist Attitudes and Neural Responses to Sexualized Targets
March 2010 - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Authors: Cikara, M., Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T.

Biological Conceptions of Race and the Motivation to Cross Racial Boundaries
June 2008 - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Authors: Williams, M. J. & Eberhardt, J. L.

Not Yet Human: Implicit knowledge, historical dehumanization, and contemporary consequences
February 2008 - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Authors: Goff, P. A. Eberhardt, J. L, Williams, M. J., & Jackson, M. C.

Differential Development of High-Level Visual Cortex Correlates with Category-Specific Recognition Memory
March 11, 2007 - Nature Neuroscience
Authors: Golarai, G, Ghahremani, D. G., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Reiss, A., Eberhardt J. L., Gabrieli, J. D. E.,& Grill-Spector, K.

Looking Deathworthy - Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes
May 2006 - Psychological Science - A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Authors: Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Paul G. Davies, Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns, and Sheri Lynn Johnson
Reprinted in W.A. Lesko (Ed.) Readings in Social Psychology: General, Classic, and Contemporary Selections, 7th Edition. Columbus, OH: Allyn & Bacon, 2008.
Reprinted in S. Fein & S. Kassin (Eds.), Readings in Social Psychology: The art and science of research, 4th Edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Reprinted in Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Paper 41, 2006.

Imaging Race
February - March 2005 - American Psychologist
Authors: Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual Processing
December 2004 - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Authors: Eberhardt, J. L., Goff, P. A., Purdie, V. J., & Davies, P. G.

Believing is Seeing: The Effects of Racial Labels and Implicit Beliefs on Face Perception
March 2003 - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Authors: Eberhardt, J. L., Dasgupta, N. & Banaszynski, T.

Differential Responses in the Fusiform Region to Same-Race and Other-Race Faces
August 2001 - Nature Neuroscience
Authors: Alexandra J. Golby, John D. E. Gabrieli, Joan Y. Chiao, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt