With more companies embracing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, it’s no surprise that unconscious bias has come to the forefront. Inherent in corporate cultures, unconscious bias (also ...

Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ...

Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

We all tend to make unconscious judgments about people based on their social identities and the cultural stereotypes that cling to them. But bias can be disastrous for its targets, affecting their ...

Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized the concept of cognitive bias in 1972, most empirical evidence has given credence to the claim that our brain is incapable of improving our ...

Many biases are the result of evolution. Source: Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay If you spend any time on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook, odds are you’ve seen people railing about biases. The term bias is thrown ...

The sometimes counterintuitive ways that our brains work can raise big questions. Why is it that we procrastinate, dragging our feet when we know we will regret it later? Why are misunderstandings and ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, media labels such as “Wuhan virus,” “China virus” and “Chinese virus” to refer to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, fueled the stigmatization of people of Asian ...

Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...

Deep learning models seem to prefer marketing to responsible research. For example, I just asked Gemini "How long does it take for an illiterate adult to learn to read?" The first response seemed to ...