Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Kindle
$12.99
Available instantly
Audible Logo Audiobook
$0.00
with membership trial
Hardcover
$14.27
Paperback
$9.99
Audible Logo Your audiobook is waiting!
Enjoy a free trial on us
$0.00
  • Click above for unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
  • One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now).
  • You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
  • $14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.
Learn more about membership
Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company
List Price: $20.25
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice.
Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Jennifer L. Eberhardt (Author, Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,233 ratings
Editors' pick Best Nonfiction
See all formats and editions

"Poignant...important and illuminating." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Groundbreaking." (Bryan Stevenson, New York Times best-selling author of Just Mercy)

From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time.

How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society - in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.

Previous page
  1. Listening Length
    10 hours and 24 minutes
  2. Author
    Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  3. Narrator
    Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  4. Audible release date
    March 26, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B07PJ19GZF
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
  10. See all details
Next page

Read & Listen

Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible audiobook with Whispersync for Voice.
Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $9.49 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product details

Listening Length 10 hours and 24 minutes
Author Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Narrator Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date March 26, 2019
Publisher Penguin Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07PJ19GZF
Best Sellers Rank #41,804 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#60 in Criminology (Audible Books & Originals)
#106 in Racism & Discrimination Studies
#292 in Criminology (Books)

Customer reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
2,233 global ratings
Biased: Uncovering Hidden Prejuudice
5 Stars
Biased: Uncovering Hidden Prejuudice
Jennifer Eberhardt is "a story teller as well as a social scientist." This well-researched book speaks to both sides of the reader's brain - the part that responds to stories and the part that responds to data and trends. She speaks from her own experience as a student, a mother and a community member about the pain of realizing how pervasive racism is in our culture. She acknowledges that anyone who grew up in the United States has an embedded worldview that sees Black people as dangerous and white people as normal human beings. Lest anyone challenge this assertion, she backs it up with extensive statistical data about the different ways Black and white people are treated in schools, stores, prisons and almost everywhere else. The writing is clear,compelling and challenging without being too difficult to understand. Anybody who cares about pervasive, unconscious racism and its manifestation in public policy, educational practice and human relationships should read this book and be prepared to think deeply about what to do to bring justice to our social, economic and political world.
Hide
Thank you for your feedback
Sorry, there was an error
Sorry we couldn't load the review

Top reviews from the United States

Judith Hinkhouse
5.0 out of 5 stars great insights
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
Verified Purchase
Book has great insight to natural inbred bias which we all need to deal with within ourselves. Excellent read to consider
Helpful
 Report
JKR
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023
Verified Purchase
This book came in new condition, as expected. Jennifer Eberhardt is a very engaging writer, threading her personal experiences in with her research and the research of other people in her field. It is a science-based non-fiction book, but not too dense that someone without a science background couldn't read it. I highly recommend it if you're interested in social justice, law, and police enforcement, how biases are informed and maintained, and the differential experiences people have as an outcome of these biases.
4 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely great read about a difficult subject.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
Verified Purchase
This book is a refreshingly great read about an incredibly difficult subject. Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD has the rare ability to put her readers at ease while discussing an incredibly difficult, complex and critical issue. What I expected, (my biases) was to walk away feeling beaten on, what I received was some really really great insight into why we form the biases we do and how our culture, job personal background and biology all plays a role. It was backed up with scientific evidence, years of experience and a willingness to treat people as individuals. This is a book that can reach across divides and make connections people of all backgrounds can relate too. I can’t recommend it enough.
4 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
S. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars An illumininatig and very well written book
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019
Verified Purchase
When it comes to how some Blacks and some Whites view the behavior of one another, many default to stereotypes. The book explains the origins of some of those stereotypes, and using research, explains that what appears to be 'bad behavior', often has a rational and reasonable explanation.

A significant portion of the book is devoted to the relationship between the Black community and the police. While many reflexively assume that negative interactions between the police and Blacks are rooted in racism, the book makes it clear that is not necessarily the case.

While much of the book provides very useful insights into Black/White issues, I think too many pages were devoted to personal stories that moved away from using research to gain understanding. For example, the discussion of Charlottesville was just too long, and it did not have much bearing on the thesis of the book, as one would gather from the title. Still, I highly recommend this book, and specifically, the first 140 pages or so.
7 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
A. Nicki Washington, Ph.D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Really great read
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
Verified Purchase
I enjoyed this book so much that I will be adding it to required reading for my class.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
jbeebee
5.0 out of 5 stars The content
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
Verified Purchase
I loved the item and shared the information. I shared the book to several of my friends.
Helpful
 Report
Marilyn C
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2023
Verified Purchase
One of the most important and informative books I have read in years. Opened my eyes to bias and how it works. And, how racism and bias differs. Aimed mostly toward how blacks have experienced bias. As a white woman, it explained how even I may have experienced it without even knowing it. Awesome book. Highly recommend.
3 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jane Fried
5.0 out of 5 stars Biased: Uncovering Hidden Prejuudice
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019
Verified Purchase
Jennifer Eberhardt is "a story teller as well as a social scientist." This well-researched book speaks to both sides of the reader's brain - the part that responds to stories and the part that responds to data and trends. She speaks from her own experience as a student, a mother and a community member about the pain of realizing how pervasive racism is in our culture. She acknowledges that anyone who grew up in the United States has an embedded worldview that sees Black people as dangerous and white people as normal human beings. Lest anyone challenge this assertion, she backs it up with extensive statistical data about the different ways Black and white people are treated in schools, stores, prisons and almost everywhere else. The writing is clear,compelling and challenging without being too difficult to understand. Anybody who cares about pervasive, unconscious racism and its manifestation in public policy, educational practice and human relationships should read this book and be prepared to think deeply about what to do to bring justice to our social, economic and political world.
Customer image
Jane Fried
5.0 out of 5 stars Biased: Uncovering Hidden Prejuudice
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019
Jennifer Eberhardt is "a story teller as well as a social scientist." This well-researched book speaks to both sides of the reader's brain - the part that responds to stories and the part that responds to data and trends. She speaks from her own experience as a student, a mother and a community member about the pain of realizing how pervasive racism is in our culture. She acknowledges that anyone who grew up in the United States has an embedded worldview that sees Black people as dangerous and white people as normal human beings. Lest anyone challenge this assertion, she backs it up with extensive statistical data about the different ways Black and white people are treated in schools, stores, prisons and almost everywhere else. The writing is clear,compelling and challenging without being too difficult to understand. Anybody who cares about pervasive, unconscious racism and its manifestation in public policy, educational practice and human relationships should read this book and be prepared to think deeply about what to do to bring justice to our social, economic and political world.
Images in this review
Customer image
Customer image
20 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Steven
5.0 out of 5 stars The science behind this book is awesome.
Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2022
Verified Purchase
Didn't feel the book was totally unbiased but the portions related to science/measurables was great
Report
S.
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in Italy on April 8, 2021
Verified Purchase
Very interesting and easy to read.
Report
P.W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for writing this book!
Reviewed in France on September 9, 2020
Verified Purchase
Being an asian living in France during the covid pandemic, I suddenly find myself surrounded by nervous faces, nasty comments & biases. This book helps me to put a lot of things together. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to understand racial biases, profiling and even understanding the simple act of someone evading you on the street. I hope, this book will one day get translated to french.
2 people found this helpful
 Report
Snigdha
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in India on June 18, 2020
Verified Purchase
It's a great book and reading it at this juncture made the content so real. It focuses on racial discrimination and interactions of coloured people with the US police force. It is well written and easy to read. The only reason I am giving it a 4 instead of a 5 is that I expected a lot more on content and discussion on unconscious bias.
One person found this helpful
 Report
susan
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2021
Verified Purchase
Well written, and very informative. I rarely read non fiction because I find it hard going, but this was very engaging.
Report