A new paper explored the presence of weight bias – “holding negative beliefs, attitudes, judgements and assumptions about people living with overweight or obesity” – in Australian healthcare students.

There is increasing evidence that implicit bias – non-conscious attitudes toward specific groups – is a source of racial inequities in certain aspects of health care, and lawmakers are taking note.

In a study that examined bias in the workplace, a University of Florida researcher found that those in management positions demonstrate explicit and implicit bias toward others from marginalized ...

A study that examined bias in the workplace has found that those in management positions demonstrate explicit and implicit bias toward others from marginalized groups and often express more implicit ...

Implicit bias is unconscious bias. This type of bias connects automatically beyond our awareness. Where does implicit bias come from? How is it reinforced? Are there specific strategies that ...

In an international study of attitudes from 2009-2019, U. of I. psychology professor Benedek Kurdi and his colleagues found substantial reductions in self-reported bias against all categories of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Our understanding of the causes of challenging behavior often do not flow from science. They flow from bias. We assume that kids who behave in challenging ways do so on purpose, in order to get or ...

Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

Procedural justice and implicit bias, two critically important concepts in law enforcement, have recently become the central focus of training at the Ithaca Police Department, as highlighted in the ...

In a study that examined bias in the workplace, a University of Florida researcher found that those in management positions demonstrate explicit and implicit bias toward others from marginalized ...