Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and ...

Biases are present in many human interactions. These typically unfair assumptions, which can encompass entire groups of people, affect how we feel about and treat members of other races, genders, ...

The healthcare industry is built upon the principle of providing equal and quality care to all patients, regardless of their race, gender, socioeconomic status or any other characteristics. As ...

A new study shows that the newspapers people read are strong predictors of their automatic, unconscious biases toward autism—even after accounting for age, education, political views, and personal ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions — they ...

New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

What are your unconscious biases and how can you overcome them? Having a preference is not a bad thing, but it may stop you from exploring equally great possibilities, and even people, if you aren’t ...

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) systems can inherit biases from the data they are trained on, reflecting human cognitive biases such as implicit bias, data bias, algorithmic bias, and sampling bias.

This interview with psychologist Anthony Greenwald was republished with permission from Knowable Magazine. The original article was published on June 4, 2020. A quarter-century ago, social ...