Dr. Tessa Charlesworth is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard University Department of Psychology. Dr. Charlesworth recently completed her PhD at Harvard where she was advised by Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji. Her research tackles questions such as: How and why do the attitudes of our society shift towards or away from prejudice? Why do some attitudes change while others remain stagnant? What are the forces in society that can shift our collective minds? To address such questions, Dr. Charlesworth integrates methods from across cognitive, social, developmental, and quantitative psychology, including laboratory experiments, natural language processing, time series, and big data analyses. Her research has been featured in top journals in psychology including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, and Am ...