Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...

Mita highlights another facet of gender bias that many women face in the workplace: appearance. The way women dress and present themselves can influence how they are perceived and compensated. Gender ...

It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

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Osaka, Japan – Serial dependence is a bias affecting perceptual experience, in which what you currently perceive tends to be biased toward what you have perceived immediately before. This phenomenon ...

Several House Democrats are sponsoring an expansion of Washington’s hate crimes laws to include a perpetrator’s perception of the victim’s characteristics, regardless of the victim’s actual attributes ...

The Los Angeles Police Department has made “significant strides” in diversifying its ranks, training officers to avoid bias policing, rigorously investigating complaints and expanding community ...

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

We all like to think we're fair and impartial, but let's be real: everyone has hidden biases. These biases can sneak into how you treat people, affecting interactions and relationships in ways you ...

To clarify the mechanism of serial dependence in number perception, a research team conducted two tests, independently asking subjects to estimate the number of coins, or to estimate the value of ...