Working Group – Bias Interrupters

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Bias Interrupters Working Group

Formed in 2015, the Bias Interrupters Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of high-profile researchers working with six prominent companies to pilot Bias Interrupters and find out what works. Experimental teams work with corporate members to implement Bias Interrupters into basic business systems and measure results.

This Working Group has:

Implemented seven Bias Interrupter experiments in prominent companies
Developed a Bias Climate Survey to help companies pinpoint what they need to work on.

Working Group Participants

Five distinct groups make up the Working Group:

Behavioral economists
Experimental social psychologists who study workplace gender and racial bias
Organizational change scholars
An editor of Harvard Business Review
Select Corporate Members (invitation only)

Corporate Members

Academic Members

Jennifer Berdahl

Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Richard Lee

Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota

Christina Rott

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics (AE1), Maastricht University

Monica Biernat

Professor & Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Kansas

Andreas Leibbrandt

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Monash University

Margaret Shih

Board of Visitors Term Chair Professor of Management and Organizations, Senior Associate Dean of FEMBA and Full Time MBA Programs, UCLA

Emilio Castilla

Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT

Kyle Lewis

Professor, Technology Management Program, UC Santa Barbara

Ashleigh Shelby-Rosette

Associate Professor, Management and Organizations, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Michelle Duguid

Associate Professor, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

Su Li

Research Director – Organizational Bias, Center for WorkLife Law

Nicole Stephens

Associate Professor, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Naomi Ellemers

Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University

John List

Homer J. Livingstone Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Olga Stoddard

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Brigham Young University

Susan Rebecca Fisk

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Kent State University

Brenda Major

Professor, Department of Social Psychology, UC Santa Barbara

Melissa Thomas-Hunt

Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, Vanderbilt University

Jeffrey Flory

Assistant Professor, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College

Gordon Moskowitz

Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University

Greg Walton

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Adam Grant

Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania

Cecilia Ridgeway

Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences

Erika Hall

Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Emory University

Louise Roth

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona

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