#  Postdoc Tessa Charlesworth explains why disability bias is a particularly stubborn problem. 

 





January 21, 2022

 

 

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 Our most negative societal prejudices can fade, but what sparks that change, and what does it mean when those views haven’t budged in years? Tessa Charlesworth, a postdoc in the Department of Psychology, has dedicated [her research in recent years](https://tessaescharlesworth.wordpress.com/publications/) to these questions, and some of her newest analysis has turned up a troubling trend involving implicit biases toward disabilities.

 [Charlesworth, ](/people/tessa-charlesworth)Ph.D. ’21, who works in the lab of [Mahzarin Banaji,](https://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/) has found that those hidden prejudices have hardly changed over a 14-year period and could take more than 200 years to reach neutrality, or zero bias.

 Read the full article in the [Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/why-disability-bias-is-a-particularly-stubborn-problem/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020211221%20(1))



 

 

 



 

 

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