Mindfulness and medicine

Several sessions at the 12th World Zoroastrian Congress focused on the body and mind, and the community’s susceptibility to certain diseases
Parinaz Gandhi

"Are we conscious of the number of misses of good deeds that we could have done?” asked Dr Mahzarin Banaji when speaking on "Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People” at the 12th World Zoroastrian Congress (12WZC) in New York on July 2, 2022. The subject of her talk was the same as the title of her widely read book that she has co-authored. Frequently, our behavior is inconsistent with our good values because "our decisions are driven by ‘implicit’ preferences and beliefs,” said the professor of social ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Everyone has implicit, or unconscious,......



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