Photo credit: Brett Topel

Photo credit: Brett Topel

When and why are we less ethical and egalitarian than we intend to be?

Dolly Chugh is an award-winning psychologist and associate professor of management and organizations at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She studies how and why most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality.” 

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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

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What’s Juneteenth? A Guide To Celebrating America’s Second Independence Day
What’s Juneteenth? A Guide To Celebrating America’s Second Independence Day

Read Dolly’s column at Forbes.com to find out why some refer to Juneteenth as the Black Fourth of July.

Professors Are Prejudiced, Too
Professors Are Prejudiced, Too

In a New York Times op-ed, Dolly Chugh, Katherine Milkman, and Modupe Akinola write about their study that showed racial and gender biases.

Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School
Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School

Professors were more likely to respond to white men than women and black, Hispanic, Indian or Chinese students.

Discrimination In The Workplace Against Women May Depend On Men’s Marital Structure
Discrimination In The Workplace Against Women May Depend On Men’s Marital Structure

The relationship between the type of marriages that employed men have and their attitudes toward working women.

Recent Articles

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What Happens Before?
What Happens Before?

A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations.

Behavioral Ethics: A Story of Increased Breadth and Depth
Behavioral Ethics: A Story of Increased Breadth and Depth

As the narrative of the behavioral ethics field continues to unfold, we take pause to note the recent research in this domain.

Leveraging Mindsets to Promote Academic Achievement
Leveraging Mindsets to Promote Academic Achievement

Policy at all levels (federal, state, and local) can leverage mindsets to lift the nation's educational outcomes.

A Dynamic and Cyclical Model of Bounded Ethicality
A Dynamic and Cyclical Model of Bounded Ethicality

Introducing a new model of bounded ethicality which helps explain three persistent puzzles of ethical behavior.