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Treat Implicit Bias as a Public Health Problem, New Report Recommends
To turn the tide on the biases that perpetuate social injustice, the latest issue of PSPI recommends that governments and institutions treat implicit bias as a public-health problem.
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Intergenerational Narratives: Providing Models of Resistance and Building Hope
We are in a “narrative crisis” according to Bryan Stevenson, the author of Just Mercy. Mr. Stevenson was a keynote speaker at the Association for Psychological Science annual meetings last week that I attended. He spoke
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Treat Implicit Bias as a Public Health Problem, New Report Recommends
To turn the tide on the biases that perpetuate social injustice, the latest issue of PSPI recommends that governments and institutions treat implicit bias as a public-health problem.
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The Bias Hunter
In February 2021, cognitive psychologist Itiel Dror set off a firestorm in the forensics community. In a paper, he suggested forensic pathologists were more likely to pronounce a child’s death a murder versus an accident if the
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The “Equal-Opportunity Jerk” Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias
If a guy acts like a jerk to other men, he may seem less sexist than he actually is, according to new research in the journal Psychological Science.
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Careers Up Close: Chris Street on Lie Detection, Truth Biases, and Developing an Adaptive Lie Detector Account
Chris Street, a senior lecturer in cognitive psychology at Keele University, UK, researches lie detection and truth biases and is working to develop the first computational model of lie/truth judgments.
