#74: When a Society Changes its Mind with Tessa Charlesworth

Tessa Charlesworth studies patterns in people’s beliefs and opinions over time, mapping out the minds of a society over decades. She’s currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University. In this episode, she shares her work charting changes in the public’s implicit biases over decades and other research looking at the evolution of language over a couple of centuries to track changes in common stereotypes.Also, we mention a previous episode of the show that’s worth checking out: Episode 16: Implicit Bias with Mahzarin BanajiThings that come up in this episode:Tessa has a series of papers on the changes in implicit biases over time (Charlesworth & Banaji, 2019, 2021a, 2021b, 2022)Decoding gender stereotypes though language analysis (Charlesworth et al., 2021)Tracking stereotypes revealed by the words in books over centuries (Charlesworth et al., 2022)Join me over at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OpinionScienceLearn more about Opinion Science and catch up on all the episodes at http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/.