How Biased Are We? A Conversation About Perception, Cognition, and Accuracy

Deutsches Haus at NYU, University Alliance Ruhr, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) present a conversation among Emily Balcetis (NYU), Lee Jussim (Rutgers University), and Albert Newen (Ruhr-University Bochum) as moderator, exploring the concept of human perception and its inherent biases that affect our understanding of the world.

About the event:

Perceptions are the window to our world. Rather than merely producing a snapshot, our brains actively create our experiences when we perceive objects or persons. Given that background knowledge and biases shape the ways in which we understand the world, can we ever trust our perceptual experiences? To what extent can we rely on science to correct our view of the world since sciences are also influenced by the biases of individual researchers? A panel of psychologists and philosophers will present recent research in a conversation about our capacity to adequately understand the world around us.