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 ...

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 ...

In a new paper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi proposes a fresh approach to confronting implicit, or unintentional, bias in diverse organizations. He spoke ...

Chances are that you’re familiar with the concept of bias. It is widespread, turning up in discussions about scientific discoveries, politics or cognitive processes. In artificial intelligence and ...

Doctors, data scientists and hospital executives believe artificial intelligence may help solve what until now have been intractable problems. AI is already showing promise to help clinicians diagnose ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The varieties of awfulness are myriad, with people mistreating one another for any number of reasons ...