Last week, two studies revealed that unexamined teacher biases are having a significant effect on girls’ education. The first ...

There's a correlation between high levels of some biases and unfavorable financial outcomes, research shows. These connections hold true even when controlling for demographic information like age, ...

The brain is wired for shortcuts and speed, not always for accuracy. It’s not a flaw; it’s just nature’s way of helping us survive. However, the errors in our thinking, also known as cognitive biases, ...

Covid-19 has radically changed the nature of shopping. In what analysts called a “holiday shopping season like none other,” brick-and-mortar stores took a brutal blow in late 2020, but the shopping ...

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 ...

Every choice we make, from picking peanut butter to forming political opinions, is influenced by unseen cognitive biases.

Political here does not refer to the sort of partisan nonsense that is ripping representative democracies apart at the seams. Rather, it refers to organizational politics – the sort of nonsense that, ...

In 1800, 10 percent of the world’s population could read and write; today it’s 86 percent. Before 1893, women had the right to vote in zero countries; today women vote in 99 percent of the world. In ...

New research published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports suggests that efforts to make artificial intelligence more ...

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