At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

Cognitive biases can pop up when your brain uses existing knowledge to make decisions quickly. In some cases, cognitive bias may lead you to make a snap judgment before thinking things through.

How do you defeat unconscious bias? First, you need to know what it is. Unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias) refers to unconscious forms of discrimination and stereotyping based on race, ...

There are multiple types of bias we humans can exhibit. None of them require any particular malice aforethought. Rather, they are natural offshoots of human development. We unconsciously group things ...

In January 2019, Jade Alburo, librarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Island studies at UCLA, wrote a Twitter thread that recounted a patron’s experience searching another large academic archive.

Bias is a hot topic. Many people have expressed concern about bias in admissions, hiring, policing, sentencing, social media moderation, and many other aspects of society. The worry is that biases ...

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 ...

Though there are guidelines for when a convicted criminal merits the death penalty (in states that still have capital punishment), ultimately, the jury makes the decision. A new study finds that the ...