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 ...

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 ...

But, the biggest obstacle to a parent’s success may be their own biases—which can be passed on unintentionally. According to ...

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

Almost every moment throughout the day, we are making decisions. However, most of us are unaware of the thoughts, buried beliefs, prejudices and biases that influence our decisions, and therefore, ...

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.

Biases impact far more than issues pertaining to social justice and social injustice, or what I tend to refer to as civil rights categories. If one looks up the word bias in the dictionary, what they ...

Most decisions we make involve some sort of a shortcut. But when we rely on these shortcuts too much, they evolve into biases—and these biases can lead to financial mistakes. Our research explored the ...

Where do our minds live? A simple, scientific response would be to say our minds live in our brains. But Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says we should not think of our minds as being solitary.