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 ...

Unconscious bias can shape decisions, interactions and workplace culture in ways that leaders and their teams might not always realize. Left unchecked, this unconscious bias can impact hiring, ...

The human brain can process 11 million bits of information every second. But our conscious minds can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information a second. So our brains sometimes take cognitive shortcuts ...

Meghan Tinsley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Bias is often thought of in the context of HR and staffing, but unconscious biases in customer service interactions can negatively affect your brand and thwart longer-term customer relationships.

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on ...

"Unconscious bias training" is being scrapped for civil servants in England, with ministers saying it does not work. The training, intended to tackle patterns of discrimination and prejudice, is used ...

An experiment that Sigmund Freud could never have imagined 100 years ago may help lend scientific support for one of his key theories, and help connect it with current neuroscience. A link between ...

Since the late 19th century, psychologists have been finding more and more mental operations that operate outside of awareness. In the popular mind, the unconscious is primarily the repository of ...