<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class="">Please join us next <b class="">Monday, May 2, at 4pm, in E14, MIT Media Lab 6th Floor Lecture Hall</b>, for the </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class="">STS Program’s<b class=""> 2016 Morison Prize Lecture</b> with <b class="">Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff</b>. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class="">F</font><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: large;" class="">ollowing the lecture, </span><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: large;" class="">please enjoy a wine reception in the Winter Garden Room. </span></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Optima" class="">We look forward to seeing you there! </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><b style="font-size: 23px;" class="">Thinking <i class="">Fast</i> Makes Changing Slow</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Lydia Villa-Komaroff</font></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;" class="">American research, and educational
institutions and industries have encountered difficulties in attracting and
retaining individuals from under-represented groups. This is particularly true
in STEM disciplines, despite decades of well-meaning efforts by government,
universities, and employers. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;" class="">Why is
this?</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;" class=""> One possible reason rarely is
mentioned: psychologists and other social scientists have long recognized that
humans make systematic errors in judgement. Hard-wired, simple, efficient rules
that all humans use to make decisions (“thinking fast”) may lead to
misjudgments about the capacity and potential of individuals from
under-represented groups. Scientists in the “hard” sciences have been
particularly resistant to the notion that the way humans make decisions can
result in biases that lead to discrimination. Several real world examples
demonstrate that academic institutions can make remarkable progress in
recruiting under-represented groups as students and faculty when they recognize
and compensate for the realities of how the human mind works.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="4B60695B-5509-40C4-8267-B99653ED2AE2" height="1305" width="844" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0EE62E14-FE8D-4AA4-91A6-A7DB27215AB5@mit.edu" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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