News tagged with bias
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People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don't even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2011 |
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When social fear is missing, so are racial stereotypes
Children with the genetic condition known as Williams syndrome have unusually friendly natures because they lack the sense of fear that the rest of us feel in many social situations. Now, a study reported in the April 13th ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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New study debunks myth about popular optical illusion (Update)
A psychology professor has found that the way people perceive the Silhouette Illusion, a popular illusion that went viral and has received substantial online attention, has little to do with the viewers' personali ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Gender-bias impacts women physicists
While some might argue that the lack of women in physics is down to personal choice or perhaps even biological determinism, Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA instead claims it could be due to small, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias
Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Mathematically ranking ranking methods
In a world where everything from placement in a Google search result to World Cup eligibility depends on ranking and numerical ratings of some kind, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the algorithms and techniques ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Research shows temptation more powerful than individuals realize
Whether it's highlighted in major news headlines about Argentinean affairs and Ponzi schemes, or in personal battles with obesity and drug addiction, individuals regularly succumb to greed, lust and self-destructive behaviors. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Study suggests left-side bias in visual expertise
Facial recognition is not as automatic as it may seem. Researchers have identified specific areas in the brain devoted solely to picking out faces among other objects we encounter. Two specific effects have been established ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Ecology biased against non-native species?
The recent field of invasion biology faces a new challenge as 19 eminent ecologists issue a call to "end the bias against non-native species" in the journal Nature.
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Can the kids be all right if they are gay too?
New research on the children of LGBTQ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) has unequivocally revealed that they are not only psychologically healthy, but often appear to exhibit better social and academic ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2010 |
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People confront prejudice only when they believe others' personalities can change
Confronting someone who makes a prejudiced remark can be a good thing—but not everyone does it. Researchers at Stanford University studied how and when targets of bias will speak up, and found that they're more likely to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Complexity in core-shell nanomagnets
The magnetic exchange bias coupling between core and shell depends critically on the "frozen spins" that reside at the interface between the two different magnetic nanomaterials, according to users from Purdue ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Measuring political bias of network news
(PhysOrg.com) -- That FOX Broadcasting Company has a conservative slant and MSNBC skews liberal may reflect widespread opinion, but a Washington University in St. Louis study suggests that news networks’ biases can be ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Wikipedia blocks access to protest Italian media law
Online encylopedia Wikipedia has blocked access to its Italian version to protest a draft law to make websites amend content on even a single complaint of prejudice without independent verification.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Racial biases fade away toward members of your own group
White people don't show hints of unconscious bias against blacks who belong to the same group as them, a new study suggests.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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