joining me is professor jennifer eberhart. nice to havee. you h >> thank you for having me. >> you say in your book that racial conditioning starts young, even as young as 3 months old. how does that happen? >> yeah. so researchers have found thatn in as young as 3 months of age are already showing a preference for faces of their own racial group. so it happens part because of how our brains are wired, but nortly because of the faces that we are exposed toally. to the extent that we live in segregated spaces, we are exposed to faces of our own racial group. and so our brain gets practiced up on that and then that affect us >> so with this inherent racial bias, you said it intensifies over time. what drives it to become stonger? >> so i don't know intensifies over time is the -- i think that, you know, as- when you are young and you're a child, you don't show maybe as much bias a you know, as an adult would. and part of that isd just k of trying to figure out sort of what the stereotypes are about the various groups. somemes when you are youn