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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Self-control bias refers to the tendency where people fail to act in pursuit of long-term goals because short-term temptations become too powerful. Self-control bias often creates a conflict between ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. If you have a brain, you have bias. We all have unconscious ...

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 ...

In a new paper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi proposes a fresh approach to confronting implicit, or unintentional, bias in diverse organizations. He spoke ...

Research continues to reveal more about the nature and impacts of implicit bias — something hidden from our direct awareness that causes tangible damage in many spheres of life, even for the very ...

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 ...