<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="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On <b class="">Monday, May 2 at 4pm, in The Media Lab, E14-6th Floor</b>, please join the STS Program for the 2016 Morison Prize Lecture with guest speaker, Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All are welcome - see you there!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Thinking <i class="">Fast</i> makes Changing </span><span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px; font-family: 'Imprint MT Shadow'; letter-spacing: 1pt;">Slow</span><span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.97333335876465px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lydia Villa-Komaroff<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.97333335876465px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">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. Why is this? 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></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="8D0E0242-0B2A-472B-80DE-B6A84FAC1D96" height="1305" width="844" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:45A43374-A8DD-4010-B77E-51CCF763B36A@mit.edu" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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