

The two also have contributed to countless other scientific breakthroughs and published myriad journal articles. Their theoretical and empirical work led to the 1998 creation of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a pioneering assessment tool that has changed how we understand and measure unconscious attitudes.

The symposium was in honor of Banaji receiving the APS William James Fellow Award.ĪPS William James Fellow Anthony Greenwald, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, became Banaji’s advisor when she began her graduate studies at Ohio State University in the 1980s and remains her most prolific collaborator to this day. A panel of Banaji’s collaborators and former students, esteemed psychological scientists in their own rights, gathered to discuss the influential role Banaji has played in their research at the 2017 APS Annual Convention in Boston. Banaji, the Robert Clarke Cabot Chair of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. On the frontlines of this revolution is APS Past President Mahzarin R. The concept of unconscious thought - that there are aspects of our minds that we are unaware of but that nevertheless influence our behavior - has been around since the days of Descartes, but only in the last 30 years have psychological scientists put these implicit cognitions under the proverbial microscope to examine where they come from, how they work, and how they relate to perception, learning, memory, judgment, and behavior. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.Psychological Science in the Public Interest.Current Directions in Psychological Science.
