Bias

Accessorizing Hate

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bias, Jesus, Non-Profits, Gays and Lesbians, United States, Love, Bigotry, Minorities, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Southern Baptists, Kindness, Non-Profit-Tax-Status, Religious Tolerance, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Christianity and Homosexuality, Murder, Politics, God, Hate Speech, Politics News
Sarah O'Leary

When we choose silence in the face of bigotry, we threaten the lifeblood of our Union. We've all experienced more than a few bigots in our lives. Th...

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Racism Study Yields Big Surprise About Bias In Babies

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Faces Study, Racist Babies, Video, Racial Bias, Nine Month Olds, Bias, Toddlers, Racism, Race, Racism Research, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/04/2012 09:51 AM EDT on LiveScience Adults have more difficulty recognizing faces that ...

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I'm Biased and So Are You

Eric Korpela | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Quackery, Science, Evidence Based Decision Making, Crime, Bias, Evidence-Based Medicine, Scientists, Selection Bias, Science News
Eric Korpela

Biases are very important to the sciences. That's primarily that you have to understand them in order to avoid or correct for them. The most famous bias is probably the "selection bias."

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Journalists Participate in Democracy; Gannett Cowers

Dave Saldana | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin, Bias, Scott Walker, Governor Scott Walker, Scott Walker Wisconsin, Gannett, Gannett Newspapers, Walker Recall Journalism, Media News
Dave Saldana

Leaving aside the false, quaint conceit that journalists are neutral, Gannett has tacitly admitted that this action was motivated not by some high standard of journalism ethics, but by fear that some political bullies might call them biased.

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What Your FInancial Advisor Isn't Telling You

Loren Berlin | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Financial Returns, Investment Advisors, Investing, Index Funds, Mutual Funds, Investment Bias, Investment, Stock Market, Bias, John C. Bogle, Financial Advisors, Actively Managed Funds, Money News

If you're looking to a financial advisor for investment strategies, be warned: Your advisor is biased and not towards you, according to a new report f...

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Unconscious Bias: It Starts With You and Me

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Women in Business, Bias in Corporate America, Unconscious Bias, Corporate America, People of Color, Bias, Race Relations, Black Voices News
Trudy Bourgeois

During a recent discussion with a colleague and friend who is a Ph.D. Associate Professor at a highly-esteemed university's School of Management, the prevalence of our unconscious biases slapped us both in the face.

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Unconscious Bias: It Starts With You and Me

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Corporate America, Bias in Corporate America, People of Color, Bias, Biases, Women in Business, Unconscious Bias, Business News
Trudy Bourgeois

I challenge you to take the IAT -- today. Why? So you can start touching your truth. Enough of the political correctness... let's tell the truth for a change. The truth is that each of us holds biases, and these biases impact the way that we see people who are different from us.

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Break Free From Anxiety: Change Your Belief Systems

John Tsilimparis | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Stress, Bias, Belief Systems, Gps-Soul, Stress Relief, Beliefs, Prejudice, Belief, Emotional Intelligence, Automatic Thoughts, Anxiety, Healthy Living News
John Tsilimparis

Because our beliefs are so powerful, we actually may be shocked that others could think the way they do. How could they believe that? They must be crazy! We may even become suspicious of them for thinking so illogically, and more importantly, for thinking so acutely opposite to us.

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The Swastika in Our Neighborhood

Barbara Becker | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Hatred, Anti-Semitism, Parenting, Swastika, Parenting Advice, New York, Jewish Parents, Jewish Children, Jewish Parenting, Bias, Jewish Bias, New York News
Barbara Becker

While walking with my 8-year-old son near our home in Manhattan, he spotted a purple swastika scrawled across a billboard advertisement. As I took in the complexities of the situation, my son uttered words that made my heart break.

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4 Ways to Have a Better Day -- Now

Amy Spencer | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: How to Be Happy, Misjudgment, Being Happy, Judgment, Impatience, Bias, Happiness, Amy Spencer, Be Happier Now, The Life Optimist, Bright Side Up, Bright Side, Video, Women News
Amy Spencer

I'm embarrassed to admit how much I recently misjudged a situation.

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John Celock

Rush Limbaugh Asked To Apologize For 'Greaseball' Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.24.2012

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An Italian-American advocacy group is slamming Rush Limbaugh for making an on-air ethnic slur in December, now demanding that the conservative talk sh...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased Habits?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Habits, Video, Craig  Venter, Neuroscience, Brain, Talk Nerdy to Me, Bias, Racism, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Psychology, Patricia Devine, Prejudice, Science News

2012-01-10-Screenshot20120110at10.39.16AM.pngHow do we choose who to call a friend? An enemy?

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The Magic Spell of a Pretty Face

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Research, New Research, Good Looks, Brain Science, Pixar, Babies, Physical Appearance, Attraction, Physical Attraction, Attention, Squirrel, Brain, Seinfeld, Magic Spell, George Costanza, Situations Matter, Attention Deficit Disorder, Romantic Relationships, Relationships, Psychology, Social Psychology, Eyesight, Bias, Fish, Video, Science News
Sam Sommers

We love to look at good-looking people. Hardly an earth-shattering conclusion, I know. But it's a well-documented one: Attractive people grab our attention.

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WATCH: Husband Orchestrated Wife's Killing, Claimed It Was A Bias Attack, Cops Say

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 10.19.2011

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BOONTON, N.J. — A Pakistani-American man whose wife was gunned down while they and their son walked along a quiet suburban street plotted the ki...

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STUDY: Good Looks Are A Liability

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Beauty, Bias, Healthy Living Health News, Beauty Bias, Pays to Be Beautiful, Physical Appearance Bias, Healthy Living Mind, Emotional Intelligence, Advantage of Being Beautiful, Healthy Living News
Sam Sommers

A new research study demonstrates that there are at least some circumstances in which being beautiful backfires.

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The New Boys' Club: Google+

Joan Williams | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Rachel Dempsey, Boys, Network, Gender Bias, Joan Williams, Google Plus, Bias, Google+, Imbalance, Club, Google, Gender, Technology News
Joan Williams

According to early data, Google+ membership in the first few weeks was close to 90% male. Now it's more like a 75/25 split -- better, but nowhere near parity.

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When Whites Feel Marginalized

Sam Sommers | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Stigma, Racism, Survey, Discrimination, Bias, Employment, Whites, Blacks, Ethnicity, Politics News
Sam Sommers

In an era in which all groups, even the historically empowered majority, see themselves as victims of bias, deciding from which direction to combat the problem of discrimination will only continue to become an increasingly difficult task.

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What Science Stories Can You Really Believe?

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Long Slee, Bias, Causation, Nurses' Study, Science, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Correlation, Marker, Mortality, Association Versus Causation, Predictor, Sleep, Healthy Living Health News, Home News
Matthew Edlund, M.D.

Be careful when you read headlines about new miracle cures and the wondrous effects of supplements. Study results can be manipulated readily, even when people are trying to do very honest, scientific work.

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Weekly Pulse: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.06.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan's program would pr...

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I Am Not a Muslim. I Am Not a Public Sector Worker.

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter King, Wisconsin, Bill of Rights, Congress, Obama, Race, History, Muslim Hearings, Bias, Scott Walker, Discrimination, Muslim, Tea Party, Unions, American, King Hearings, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Most Americans are not Muslim. And most Americans do not work for our government. So, like any minority, they're easy to pick on. Who's gonna mind? Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe would.

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The Future of Foster Care: Are We Too Cheap to Keep Children Safe?

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fostering Media Connections, Abuse, Disproportionality, Orphan, Bias, Racism, Harvard Law School, Elizabeth Bartholet, Maltreatment, Daniel Heimpel, Foster Care, Neglect, Impact News
Daniel Heimpel

If making children safe truly requires changing the overarching ideology, then juvenile judges, social workers, children's rights attorneys and social scientists cannot do it alone.

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Top Chef's Recipe for Gender Bias

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality Television, Gender Bias, Bias, Sexism, Food, Bravo, Top Chef, Women Chefs, Women, Sexist, Media News
Tara Sophia Mohr

If Top Chef wants to claim they hold a meritocratic competition, they need to taste dishes blindly.

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Overcoming Ambiguity: Three Steps That Every Business Can Take

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Strategy, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Bias, Ambiguity, Doing Both, Inder Sidhu, China, Business News
Inder Sidhu

Some business leaders simply can't handle a gamble like investing in China. To them, the ambiguities add too much stress or create too many distractions. Yet others thrive in this situation. How?

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Is Juan Williams Hidden Inside Us?

Linda Kenney Baden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fired, Muslims, Honesty, Bias, Npr, Juan Williams, Fox News, Discrimination, Media News
Linda Kenney Baden

I prefer to be aware of the concealed biases of news analysts, especially if they may reflect a larger feeling held by others.

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Colorblindness And The Psychology Of Racism

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Color Blindness, Psychological Science, Evan Apfelbaum, Bias, Northwestern, Social Psychology, Diversity, Race Relations, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Wray Herbert

A team of psychological scientists decided to measure the consequences of a colorblind strategy in the lives of young children. The results were dramatic and sobering.

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