Psychology & Psychiatry
Age bias is subconscious, study indicates
New research led by Flinders University helps to explain why age distinctions proliferate.
Sep 14, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A study of medication for knee osteoarthritis points the way to new methods for ranking drugs' effectiveness
Maybe you "trust Tylenol" or (like this writer) you're "all Advil." Research proves that both painkillers work, but many of us, including our doctors, can't help but have a preference shaped by experience and perhaps even ...
Feb 24, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
US children show clear evidence of bias at the intersection of race and gender
A new Northwestern University study provides strong and consistent evidence of bias at the intersection of race and gender in 4-year-old children. The researchers examined 4-year-old children's responses to images of other ...
Jan 24, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A vaccination against social prejudice
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they ...
Nov 29, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Do mothers favor daughters and fathers favor sons?
Imagine a parent who is shopping and has a few moments to spare before heading home. If the parent has both a son and daughter but time to buy only one surprise gift, who will receive the gift?
Oct 4, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Seeing really is believing
(Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?
Feb 1, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gender bias sways how we perceive competence in faces
Faces that are seen as competent are also perceived as more masculine, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Dec 7, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Strong convictions can blind us to information that challenges them
When people are highly confident in a decision, they take in information that confirms their decision, but fail to process information which contradicts it, finds a UCL brain imaging study.
May 27, 2020
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Older adults live longer in counties with greater age bias, researchers find
Older adults living in counties with greater age bias had better health outcomes than those living in areas with less age bias, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers, who were surprised at the findings.
Nov 25, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Cocky kids: The four-year-olds with the same overconfidence as risk-taking bankers
Overconfidence in one's own abilities despite clear evidence to the contrary is present and persistent in children as young as four, a new study by the University of Sussex Business School has revealed.
Apr 2, 2020
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