Research Symposium:
Inclusive Leadership, Stereotyping, and the Brain

Friday September 18, 2009
8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Venue: The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 117th and 118th Streets)
New York (directions and online map).

Co-hosted by: The Program on Social Intelligence and the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics

Leading effectively in today's workplace requires the ability to manage many types of diversity, including cultural, gender, and generational diversity. A key challenge to leaders is the tendency for societal stereotypes to bias one's evaluations and expectations. The psychology of stereotyping, and of strategies for minimizing its influence, is thus highly relevant to managers and organizations.

Research in social psychology, and social cognitive neuroscience, provides insights about how and when stereotypes affect judgments.

In this research conference, we explore these scientific insights and draw out some of their practical implications for managing diversity and inclusive leadership.

AGENDA 
8:30 – 8:45 AM
 		Breakfast and Registration
 
8:45 – 9:00 AM

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome by Bruce Kogut
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics;
Director, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center
Columbia Business School

Introduction of speaker by Malia Mason
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

9:00 – 9:45 AM

Keynote Presentation: "Universal Dimensions of Social Cognition: Warmth and Competence" (Download presentation PDF | Video on YouTube Part 1)

Susan Fiske
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
(35 minute presentation, 10 minute Q&A)

   
9:45 – 11:15 AM

Research Panel: "Stereotypes"(Video on YouTube Part 2)

Michael Morris (Moderator)
Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership
Columbia Business School

Lasana Harris
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Duke University:
"The Neural Correlates of Moral Decision Making about Social Groups" (Download presentation PDF)

Dana Carney
Assistant Professor of Management
Columbia Business School:
"Physicians' racial bias predicts medical treatment decision"
(Download presentation PDF)

David Amodio
Assistant Professor of Psychology
New York University:
"A Social Neuroscience Approach to the Regulation of Intergroup Bias" (Download presentation PDF)

Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Columbia University:
"Combating stereotypes: Improving Minority Intellectual Performance with a Values-Affirmation Intervention" (Download presentation PDF)

(15 minute presentations, 30 minutes Q&A)

11:15–11:30 AMCoffee Break
 
11:30 – 1:00 PM

Panel discussion (Video on YouTube Part 3)

Christopher Mayer (Moderator)
Senior Vice Dean; Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate
Columbia Business School

Susan Sturm
George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility
Columbia Law School:
"Stereotypes and the Law" (Download presentation PDF)

Laura Liswood
Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders;
Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs

Monika Mantilla
CEO and President
Altura Capital

JoEllen Helmer
Partner
Ernst & Young
1:00 – 2:00 PMClosing Remarks and Buffet Lunch

Related Academic papers

Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J., Glick, P., & Xu, J., “A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002, 82, 878-902.

Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Glick, P., “Universal dimensions of social perception: Warmth and competence,” Trends in Cognitive Science, 2007, 11, 77-83.

Amodio, D. M., “The social neuroscience of intergroup relations,” European Review of Social Psychology, 2008, 19, 1-54.

Amodio, D. M., & Frith, C. D., “Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006, 7, 268-277.

Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E., “Individual differences in the regulation of intergroup bias: The role of conflict monitoring and neural signals for control,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2008, 94, 60-74.

Green, A. R., Carney, D. R., Pallin, D. J., Ngo, L. H., Raymond, K. L., Iezzoni, L., & Banaji, M. R., “The presence of implicit bias in physicians and its prediction of thrombolysis decisions for black and white patients,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2007, 22, 1231-1238.

Harris, L., Fiske, S., “Social neuroscience evidence for dehumanised perception,” European Review of Social Psychology, 2009, 20(1), 192-231.