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 ...

Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

Falling for the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases often costs you an arm and a leg. Yet such serious mistakes happen all the time in business! For instance, one of the biggest ...

Learn about self-enhancement, a bias by which individuals overvalue their own successes. Discover its implications, examples, and how it can affect decision-making.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used as a tool in many health care settings, from writing physicians' notes to making ...

Two experts discuss what you need to know about the technology’s limitations and how to avoid unforeseen consequences.

Emergent biases can still emerge even when we have trained the machine-learning algorithms with a cleansed data set with no known biases. The AI bias problem is often treated as a data problem, ...