The self-serving bias is defined as people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that ...

People tend to think having biases is a bad thing. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to education and the workplace, tackling and mitigating bias is very much a topic of conversation. But, if we want to ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies will plan a one and one half day workshop to advance the understanding of implicit bias. The workshop may: 1) consider the current state of scientific ...

Reported bias incidents in New Jersey rose last year by 22%, continuing a trend that has sharply increased since 2016, according to preliminary data released by the attorney general's office on ...

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Anchoring bias is a form of cognitive bias where people tend to place extra importance on the first piece of information they get on a topic, regardless of the accuracy of that data point. In ...