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February 27, 2025: Interview: Dr. Eric Hehman on Prejudice Research: Regional Analyses + Predictability

We are joined with Dr. Eric Hehman, Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University and director of the Seeing Human Lab. Dr. Hehman is a social psychologist conducting research on regional analyses of prejudice and physical and mental health related outcomes. Another domain of research he’s working on includes coming up with a mathematical formula to predict human behaviour, sort of like a weather forecast but for humans!

Previously on the show, we’ve talked about implicit prejudice and the IAT, as well as stereotyping and discrimination with a specific focus on dehumanization. This time, we focus specifically on prejudice and its real world manifestations or consequences in policies and laws, and in physical and mental health outcomes.

We then chat a little bit about what it looks like to create a mathematical formula to predict prejudice and what sort of things go into creating something like that.

Check out prejudicemap.org for the, you guessed it, prejudice map. lol

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