What makes you speak up -- or not -- when you see something you know is wrong? Memory scientist Julia Shaw explains the psychology of those who witness workplace discrimination and harassment -- and shares actionable steps companies can take to support and amplify their voices.

How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining tools from memory science and artificial intelligence to change how we report workplace harassment and bias. She shares three lessons to apply if you've been harassed or discriminated against -- and int...

One of the obstacles facing those who have experienced workplace harassment is the scarcity of reporting mechanisms that adequately combine fact-finding rigor with emotional support. Drawing from a decade studying police interviews and the ways trauma interacts with memory, Dr. Julia Shaw discusses how cognitive science and online tools can help...

Two TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary.

Is there such a thing as an evil person or are we really just a species with a huge potential for evil? Dr. Julia Shaw reckons it's the latter, but it's not all bad news. Dr Julia Shaw is author of the 2018 popular science book “Making Evil: The science behind humanity’s dark side”. She researches criminal psychology at University College Londo...

What does it mean to be an accidental activist? A year ago, psychological and memory scientist at UCL, Dr Julia Shaw, came to TEDxLondon to tell us how organisations can better tackle workplace harassment by providing effective reporting tools and training. Now, she’s back, having conducted one of the largest studies ever on witnesses of harassm...

Julia Shaw is a memory scientist at the University College London and author who will blow your mind with her ability to hack into peoples ́minds. She will explain what memory illusions are and why there might be a past that never was.

How can you be sure that any particular memory is true? Julia Shaw takes you on an adventure into the weird world of memory hacking. She shows that through a combination of perceptual flaws, brain biases, and social influences, your memories can be easily influenced. Armed with science, she explores how even some of your most cherished and emoti...

The MIT Proximity Pilot Study is approved by MIT‘s Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES) Proximity Pilot Team Principal Investigator Prof. Julie Shah, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Co-Investigators Dr. Cecilia Stuopis, MIT Medical Dr. Shawn Ferullo, MIT Medical Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab Dr. Vikash M...

We still have plenty of time before the robots finish taking our jobs — but you might have a robot co-worker or two sooner than you think. The workforce of the near future will undoubtedly involve more and more human-machine teamwork, and Julie Shah is working to make this collaboration as smooth as possible. How can we design robots that work b...