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 ...

Many biases are the result of evolution. Source: Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay If you spend any time on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook, odds are you’ve seen people railing about biases. The term bias is thrown ...

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

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 ...

There are tons of cognitive biases that affect our daily decision-making. There's the halo effect, which explains why we think physically attractive people are generally wonderful. And there's the ...

People aren't as rational as we would like to think. From attentional bias — where someone focuses on only one or two of several possible outcomes — to zero-risk bias — where we place too much value ...

Anchoring is another pervasive cognitive bias in legal settings. This occurs when the initial piece of evidence someone ...

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.

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

Ask any educated person what the placebo effect is, and almost all of them will be able to tell you. They will also accept, without any arm-twisting, that the placebo effect is real. After all, there ...