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Racial ‘disparity’ in police respect
BBC: Scientists developed a way to measure levels of respect, based on the officers’ language during routine traffic stops in Oakland City. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It
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APS Fellows Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Five APS Fellows, including APS Past President Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger, III, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. APS Fellows
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Group Rituals Can Make Us Biased Against Outsiders
Engaging in basic rituals — even arbitrary movements — can make us more likely to trust those who share the same ritual and less likely to trust those who don’t.
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Seven Steps to Reduce Bias in Hiring
The Wall Street Journal: Why is it that many of the world’s most advanced companies struggle to create diversified workforces, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity training and recruitment? Implicit bias may
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Predictable bias
The Boston Globe: IN A SERIES of experiments, people were asked about their impressions of a white man whose personality profile suggested that he was moderately racist or moderately sexist. Obviously, women should expect bias
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People Assume Sexists Are Also Racist and Vice Versa
The stigma associated with prejudice against women and people of color seems to transfer from one group to another, a series of experiments shows.