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They keep changing their minds about whether or not their Über-popular psychological test can actually predict racist behavior.
In an excerpt from his new book, Marc Benioff says he initially didn't believe any pay gap was pervasive in the first place.
Do people display different racial biases towards black robots and white robots? A new study says yes
Have you ever been in a meeting where a colleague says “I’m a great supporter of gender equality, but I’m totally opposed to quotas!” Or…
Makerspaces may be one of the most exciting elements on any school’s campus. But a lack of focus around culture and gender inclusiveness are stunting ...
Michael Brown Jr.’s death at the hands of Ferguson, Missouri, Officer Darren Wilson was a critical point in the national debate about policing, as “Ferguson” became shorthand for growing public consciousness about racial disparities in police use of force. Continuing moral outrage has the potential to inspire essential reforms in policies governing police-civilian encounters. But effective reforms must be based on accurate understandings of human behavior.
Trainings and workshops geared toward eliminating people’s hidden prejudices are all the rage—but many don’t work. Now the psychologist who made the case for "implicit bias" wants to cure it.
Bias interrupters that aren't: diversity programming. Other tactics work better.
Social media has a racism problem because humans have a racism problem. Can one company solve it?
Search committee behaviors.
Watch our educational video animation adapted by Professor Uta Frith, discussing unconscious bias, introducing key concepts & current academic thinking on the subject. Discover it now.
Findings reveal subconscious racial bias of teachers, who directed attention more closely to black boys when ‘challenging behavior’ is expected
Letters of recommendation -- critical to young scientists' chances of being hired for postdoctoral research positions -- may be disadvantaging women from the very start of their careers, and the professors writing those letters may not realize it, a new study suggests.
Orchestra audition trick works in IT too.
Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask" industry, has shown that women don't negotiate for a very simple reason: they sense -- correctly -- that it will hurt them if they do.
Noticing the skewed lineups at conferences, a Princeton neuroscientist and colleagues have started a website to compare the gender ratios at conferences to those in a particular field over all.