Cognitive biases can subtly skew your judgment and decision-making by causing you to favor certain pieces of information over others. Understanding common types like confirmation, hindsight, and ...

Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

We all tend to make unconscious judgments about people based on their social identities and the cultural stereotypes that cling to them. But bias can be disastrous for its targets, affecting their ...

As employers increasingly use AI to help screen job applicants, evaluate performance, forecast risk, and support everyday decision-making, it’s critical you ensure your organization doesn’t ...

David Baidoo-Anu and Monsurat Raji say their research shows that cultural bias in exam questions can put students at a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. If you have a brain, you have bias. We all have unconscious ...

The biggest-ever study of real people’s mortgage data shows that predictive tools used to approve or reject loans are less accurate for minorities. We already knew that biased data and biased ...