When people watch violent video game characters, the race of those digital avatars can shape the viewers’ racial biases in real life. A recent experiment published in the International Journal of ...

This story is sponsored by Utahradon.org. Almost everyone has an occasional cough or congestion and they write it off as no big deal, but if you live in Utah, it's critical to be aware that a bigger ...

Negative messages about body size and weight throughout childhood were frequently cited as potential sources for internalized weight biases in medical students. Intentional educational curriculum is ...

The scientific rigor behind "implicit bias" has been questioned since at least 2009, when the Journal of Applied Psychology deemed the evidence "surprisingly weak" that the Harvard-designed implicit ...

In an international study of attitudes from 2009-2019, U. of I. psychology professor Benedek Kurdi and his colleagues found substantial reductions in self-reported bias against all categories of ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in this seventeenth edition to social psychologists Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dolores Albarracín ...

Even among physicians who believe they are doing the best they can for their patients, implicit bias can adversely impact clinical decisions and contribute to low-value care for Black patients with ...

ABSTRACT: The pervasive use of photo editing applications such as Photoshop and FaceTune has significantly altered societal beauty standards, particularly for individuals with skin of color, often ...