Andrew Scott Baron
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33 Kirkland St. Department of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2004-present Graduate School of Arts & Sciences A.M. – Psychology - March, 2007 Doctoral candidate – Department of Psychology Completion date – June, 2009 Thesis title: The Development of Intergroup Cognition Advisors: Mahzarin R. Banaji (Social Psychology) & Susan E. Carey (Developmental Psychology) University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1997-2001 Bachelor of Arts - Graduated: April, 2001 Concentration: Psychology (B.A. with High Honors) Minor: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture HONORS AND AWARDS (competitive) Eliot Dissertation Completion Award, June, 2008 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, April 2006; April 2005 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Award, December 2004 Endowed Research Award, Harvard University, Department of Psychology, November 2004 Tanner Memorial Award for meritorious undergraduate research, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, February 2001 PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (in press). Implicit Association Test. Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (2008). The development of implicit intergroup cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(7), 248-253. Phone: 617.496.5361 Fax: 617.384.7944 Email: abaron@fas.harvard.edu Web: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~barona
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Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (2007). Children and social groups: A developmental analysis of implicit consistency among Hispanic-Americans. Self and Identity, 6, pp. 238-255. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (2006). From American city to Japanese village: A cross-cultural Investigation of implicit race attitudes. Child Development, 77(5), pp. 1268-1281. Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (2006). The development of implicit attitudes: Evidence of race evaluations from ages 6, 10 & adulthood. Psychological Science, 17(1), pp. 53-58. Book Chapters Banaji, M.R., Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Olson, K. (2008). The development of intergroup social cognition: Early emergence, implicit nature, and sensitivity to group status. In Levy, S.R. & Killen, M. (Eds.), Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Under Review Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., Banaji, M.R., & Carey, S. Constraints on social-categorization. Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. The emergence of system justification in young children. Barth, H., Baron, A.S., Spelke, E., & Carey, S. Children’s preverbal representations of multiplication and division. In Preparation Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Carey, S. Consequences of group membership on inductive inference. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. Asymmetry in the development of implicit and explicit gender attitudes. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Carey, S. Social group membership automatically supports the entrenchment of intergroup bias. Invited Talks & Colloquia Baron, A.S. (April, 2008). Consequences of group membership on social categorization and inductive inference. 4th Annual Harvard-Yale Conference on Social Cognitive Development. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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Baron, A.S. (May, 2007). Origins of implicit bias. 3rd Annual Harvard-Yale Conference on Social Cognitive Development. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Baron, A.S. (March, 2007). Learning about the properties of people and artifacts: How children reason about ownership and stereotypes. Mind, Brain, and Behavior colloquium. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji. M.R. (2006). Constraints on the development of intergroup attitudes: ingroup bias and social learning. Paper presented at the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology conference on Social Developmental Perspectives on Intergroup Inclusion and Exclusion. Kent, UK. Baron, A.S. (2006). Learning and reasoning about social categories. Paper presented at the preconference symposium on Developmental Perspectives on Intergroup Relations at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Palm Springs, CA. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Carey, S. (April, 2005). Children’s representations of social kinds. 1st Annual Harvard-Yale Conference on Social Cognitive Development. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Conference Presentations (selected, peer reviewed) PAPERS Baron, A.S. (co-chair), & Carey, S (April, 2009). Consequences of group membership on social categorization and inductive inference. Paper to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development symposium on the Psychological Constraints on Social Categorization and Inductive Inference. Denver, CO. Baron, A.S. (co-organizer), & Hamlin, K. (February, 2009). The Developmental Origins of Social Cognition. Preconference at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, FL. Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (June, 2008). Unraveling the roots of implicit intergroup bias. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial Convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues symposium on Developmental Perspectives on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations. Chicago, IL. Baron, A.S. (co-chair), Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (February, 2008). Origins of implicit intergroup cognition. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology symposium on Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Implicit Social Cognition: Contributions from Developmental Psychology. Albuquerque, NM. Baron, A.S. (co-chair), Dunham, Y., Banaji, M.R., & Carey, S. (October, 2007). Foundations of social categorization. Paper presented at the 5th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society symposium on Cognitive Developmental Perspectives on Social Categorization and the Implications for Intergroup Bias. Santa Fe, NM.
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Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (September, 2007). Origins of implicit bias. Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the European Social Cognition Network. Brno, Czech Republic. Baron, A.S. (co-chair), Dunham, Y., Banaji, M.R., & Carey, S. (March, 2007). Constraints on social-category based inferences. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development symposium on the Cognitive and Cultural Origins of Social Categorization. Boston, MA. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Carey. S. (August, 2006). Origins of bias: Exploring the minimal group effect in children. Paper presented at the 114th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Carey. S. (July, 2006). All stripped down: Children’s intergroup bias in the minimal group setting. Paper presented at the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology conference on Social Developmental Perspectives on Intergroup Inclusion and Exclusion. Kent, UK. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (June, 2005). Balanced identity as a developmental phenomenon. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. Vancouver, Canada. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (April, 2005). Bridging the attitude-behavior gap through the study of implicit race attitudes. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (January, 2005). Children's implicit intergroup attitudes. Preconference symposium paper presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (January, 2005). The origins of implicit attitudes: Evidence from four developmental studies. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA. Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (June, 2004). Stability and change of implicit and explicit prejudice across development. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society. Toronto, Canada. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (June, 2004). Developmental social psychology: Outlining a new approach to the study of prejudice in children. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society. Toronto, Canada. POSTERS Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (March, 2007). Foundations of implicit and explicit intergroup bias. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
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Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., Banaji, M.R., & Carey, S. (January, 2007). A developmental analysis of social categorization and the origins of stereotypes. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, TN. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (January, 2006). Children’s automatic evaluation of novel social groups. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Palm Springs, CA. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (October, 2005). Children’s representations of social groups. Poster presented at the 4th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. San Diego, CA. Baron, A.S., Barth, H., & Carey, S. (October, 2005). Children’s pre-arithmetic representations of multiplication and division. Poster presented at the 4th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. San Diego, CA. Baron, A.S., Dunham, Y., & Banaji, M.R. (April, 2005). The development of implicit gender attitudes. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (January, 2005). The development of implicit social attitudes in the United States and Japan. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (September, 2004). Exploring the relationship between self-identity, self-esteem, and intergroup attitudes in Hispanic-American children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the New England Social Psychological Association. Storrs, CT. Dunham, Y., Baron, A.S., & Banaji, M.R. (July, 2004). The development of implicit race bias. Poster presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the ISSBD. Ghent, Belgium. Baron, A.S., Shusterman, A., Bordeaux, A., & Banaji, M.R. (January, 2004). Implicit race attitudes in AfricanAmerican and Hispanic children. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Austin, TX. Banaji, M.R., & Baron, A.S. (January, 2004). Implicit and explicit race attitudes: Evidence from age 6, 10, and adulthood. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Austin, TX. Baron, A.S., & Keller, M.C. (January, 2003). Character information enhances memory for faces: But what’s the mechanism? Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Los Angeles, CA. Baron, A.S., & Burnstein, E. (June, 2002). Are humans equipped with a specific cheater-detection module or a more general person-impression module? Evidence from a face recognition experiment. Poster presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference. New Brunswick, NJ.
Baron, Andrew Scott PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Ad-hoc Reviewer Psychological Science Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues International Journal of Behavioral Development Journal of Applied Social Psychology Social Development TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Fellow Course: Sophomore Tutorial (course for sophomore psychology concentrators) Date: Spring 2008 Course: Senior Tutorial (course for senior thesis students) Date: 2007-2008 academic year Course: Undergraduate Research Lab Date: Spring 2007 Course: Contemporary Topics in Psychological Research Date: Fall 2006; Fall 2007 Guest Lectures
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Course: Graduate Research Methodology in Social Psychology; Department of Psychology, Harvard; Topic: Measuring implicit social cognition; Date: 3 April 2008 Course: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Challenges and Strategies; Harvard School of Public Health; Topic: The Implicit Association Test and reducing racial and ethnic health disparities; Date: 2 April 2008 Course: Seminar on Social Development; Department of Psychology, Harvard; Topic: Social cognitive development: An overview; Date: 3 April 2007 Course: Language & Thought; Department of Psychology, Harvard; Topic: Linguistic effects on social categorization; Date: 22 February 2007 Course: Seminar on Social Development; Department of Psychology, Harvard; Topic: Development of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes; Date: 6 April 2006
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Thesis Advising Rebecca Levine, Harvard University, 2006-2007 Undergraduate Advising Kasia Chimilenski; Kelly Knoche; Ariel Sloan; Paul Fenstermaker; Jennifer Cheng; Sarah Murphy; Madeline Harms; Myriah Zein-Taratelli; Taylor Dryman High-school Advising Sean Ahluwalia; Stephanie Calmon; Samantha Dweck UNIVERSITY / DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES Co-founder and Co-organizer, Social Cognitive Development Research Workshop/Group, 2003 - present Co-organizer, Annual Harvard-Yale Social Cognitive Development Conference, 2006 – present Coordinator, University-Museum Research Initiative Boston Museum of Science; June 2004 – present Boston Children’s Museum; June 2005 – present EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Guest speaker/consultant Confronting our Hidden Biases: Applied Psychology Staff training, Bureau of Study Counsel, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: 12 December 2008 The Learning Child: How Psychological Research Informs Educational Practice Curran Early Childhood Center, Dedham Public Schools; 9 December 2008 The Psychological Study of Bias and the Implications for Tolerance Education Commonwealth School, Boston, MA: 4 December 2008 Affecting Classroom Achievement: Insight from Current Research in Cognitive and Social Science Symposium at the 14th annual meeting of the New England Conference on Gifted and Talented; Mansfield, MA; 17 October 2008 The Nature of Unconscious Bias Emerson College; 18 August 2008
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Measuring Unconscious Bias and Its Influence on Behavior MIT Medical Diversity Fair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA; 31 July 2008 Making Sense of the Social World: Insights from Children Adult Workshop at the Boston Museum of Science; Boston, MA; 20 March 2008 Boosting Academic Achievement in the Classroom: Insights from the Brain Sciences (Graduate course for K-12 teachers through Endicott College) Franklin Public Schools; Franklin, MA; 31 January 2008 Uncovering the Nature of Implicit Biases in Adults and Children Community for Diversity, Milton Academy; Milton, MA; 17 January 2008 Social Cognitive Development and Racism Adult Workshop at the Boston Museum of Science; Boston, MA; 15 November 2007 Seminar on Stages of Cognitive Development (for K-12 teachers) Lawrence Public Schools; Lawrence, MA; 4 August 2006 Instructor: Brain Blast – course for children ages 9-11 on psychology and the brain Kaleidoscope – summer enrichment program for children; July 2006; 2007; 2008