THE NON-OBVIOUS SHOW · EPISODE 22
with Dolly Chugh
What does it take to unlearn history in order to build a more just future for everyone? Dolly Chugh is an award-winning psychologist and professor of social psychology and management at the New York University Stern School of Business. Dolly's research focuses on "bounded ethicality," which she describes as the "psychology of good people." In her latest book, "A More Just Future," Dolly explores our emotional relationship with our country's complicated past, providing us with the tools we didn't know we needed to do the urgent and necessary work of reckoning with our past. In this episode, Dolly Chugh explains why we need to focus on being good-ish people rather than just good, the importance of understanding, noticing, and doing better than our country's mistakes, and how incorporating more storytelling into history education could be the stepping stone to filling the gaps within our history for future generations. Here is Dolly Chugh sharing what it takes to unlearn history on this week's episode of the Non-Obvious Show.
Social psychologist, professor at NYU Stern
Dolly Chugh is the Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and author of The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. She studies the psychology of good people, including how bias and identity shape everyday behavior.
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