In several experiments, Olin professor Michelle Duguid and Prof. Melissa Thomas-Hunt of the University of Virginia studied whether making people aware of bias would lessen it. Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg discuss the research in the first of a four-part series about women in the workplace for The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2014, “When Talking About Bias Backfires.”

Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Give and Take.” Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of LeanIn.org.