Jack Glaser is associate professor and associate dean at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Most recently, he has initiated research on capital punishment, the effect it has on legal decision making, and how that interacts with defendant race. Additionally, Glaser has been involved in training California State judges in the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how they might operate implicitly, and undermine fairness, in the courtroom. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1999.
We are a long way from knowing precisely what happened in Ferguson, two weeks ago, but one thing is clear: The town’s name has become yet another synonym for the chasm of experience dividing white and black America.