Speaker:

Tessa Charlesworth, Assistant Professor in Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Title:

Mapping long-term change in attitudes and stereotypes

Abstract:

How do the humans of today think and feel differently than the humans of the past? In particular, when it comes to our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups, defined by gender, race, sexual orientation, and more, where has our society progressed, regressed, or remained stagnant? In this talk, I will lay out the evidence of change versus stability using empirical records from archival surveys of humans’ attitudes and stereotypes (part one) as well as expanded records of attitudes and stereotypes that can be gleaned from traces of naturalistic language (part two). I will close by discussing a new framework for how we conceptualize these records of change across multiple levels of analysis, sources of change, and durability of change.

Speaker Bio:

Tessa Charlesworth is an Assistant Professor in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her research tackles the question of how and why biased thoughts (beliefs) and feelings (attitudes) of social groups change across the long timespans of history, as well as across more immediate interventions. She uses a multi-level, multi-method approach: seeking to understand change within the micro-level of an individual, within meso-level aggregates (e.g., demographic groups, organizations), and at largest macro-level of our entire society. To do so requires methodological insights from across social, developmental, cognitive, and quantitative psychology, as well as computer science, organizational behavior, sociology, and economics, including laboratory experiments, natural language processing, time series, and big data analyses. Professor Charlesworth received her PhD from Harvard University.

Location:

In person: Kellogg Global Hub room 1130 (first floor) - please note, this is a different location than usual.
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95822930327
Passcode: NICO2023

About the Speaker Series:

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