<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" class="" face="Candara">Good morning!</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="" face="Candara"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="" face="Candara">Please join us this afternoon at<b class=""> 4pm, in E14, MIT Media Lab 6th Floor Lecture Hall</b>, for the </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="" face="Candara">STS Program’s<b class=""> 2016 Morison Prize Lecture</b> with <b class="">Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff</b>. </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Candara" size="4" class="">Following the lecture, please enjoy a wine reception in the Winter Garden Room.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Candara" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Candara" size="4" class="">We look forward to seeing you there!</font></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 23px;">Thinking <i class="">Fast</i> Makes Changing Slow</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"><font size="4" class="">Lydia Villa-Komaroff</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">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 class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Why is this?</span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> 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="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="E73BC300-5300-42EC-BEFD-44968DC118BF" height="1305" width="844" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0CEE227A-C464-43BB-87CD-7E301CA2010F@mit.edu" class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">____________________________________________</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">Gus Zahariadis</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">Assistant to the Director</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">Program in Science, Technology, and Society</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">T: (617) 253-3452</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class="">F: (617) 258-8118</b></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1" color="#1f497d"><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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