This is Part 1 of a series diving into why so much medical news is wrong—lazy research, flawed studies, and media spin all play a part. From confirmation bias and cognitive bias to pseudoscience, ...

This hostile attribution bias may contribute to increased intergroup hostility and authoritarian behavior in the long run, according to study co-author and NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein.

To mitigate confirmation bias in user research, design research studies that are intended to test your hypotheses, rather than confirm them. In our example above, opening up the research to a more ...

We found sport psychology research studies – which inform the strategies athletes use to reach peak performance – have predominantly used male participants. For example, across the sport ...

A new in-depth case study in Science finds that faculty hiring rubrics—also called criterion checklists or evaluation tools—helped mitigate gender bias in these decisions. At the same time, ...

If you look at my Wikipedia entry, for example, there’s an outsized emphasis ... based on a computerized language study of thousands of Wikipedia articles. As author David Rozado explains ...