Mahzarin Banaji

Mahzarin Rustum Banaji
Born	1956 (age 60–61)
Fields	Social psychology
Institutions	Yale University, Harvard University
Alma mater	Osmania University, Ohio State University
Known for	Implicit Association Test

Mahzarin Rustum Banaji (born 1956) is an Indian-American social psychologist at Harvard University.

She was born and raised in Secunderabad to a Parsi family, where she attended St. Ann's High School. Her BA is from Nizam College and her MA in psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. In 1986, Banaji received a PhD from Ohio State University and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington. From 1986 to 2001 she taught at Yale University, where she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2001, she moved to Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology. She also served as the first Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2002 to 2008. In 2005, Banaji was elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. In 2009, she was named Herbert A. Simon Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2016, the Association for Psychological Science named Banaji one of its William James Fellows, an award given to outstanding contributors to scientific psychology.