Nilanjana Dasgupta, provost professor of psychology and inaugural director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences, discussed topics from her book, Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities. “Social norms, what other people around us think, what our peers think, what our parents think, what our bosses think, the roles we are in and the expectations that come with the roles, the physical environment and whose offices are next to us, whose house is next to us – all of those situational forces are nudges that push us or pull us,” she says. “Those forces
