A new paper explored the presence of weight bias – “holding negative beliefs, attitudes, judgements and assumptions about people living with overweight or obesity” – in Australian healthcare students.

In an international study of attitudes from 2009-2019, U. of I. psychology professor Benedek Kurdi and his colleagues found substantial reductions in self-reported bias against all categories of ...

Prejudice and discrimination touch every corner of society, shaping the daily lives of marginalized groups worldwide. Whether it’s racial bias, cultural divides, or gender inequalities, these issues ...

A new study shows that watching a Black video game character commit violent acts increases unconscious prejudice in White ...

Our understanding of the causes of challenging behavior often do not flow from science. They flow from bias. We assume that kids who behave in challenging ways do so on purpose, in order to get or ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Antibias education for preschool teachers has come under fire in Alabama, which has rejected a training manual teaching what it calls “woke concepts.” However, researchers say that problems with bias ...

The Black Lives Matter protests that spread across the US in 2020 caused a rapid drop in racial bias, but by the end of the year, it had risen again, according to new research. While the protests ...

Ithaca’s two police chief finalists, John Poleway and Thomas Kelly, attended a community meet-and-greet on Nov. 2 to share their visions for leading the Ithaca Police Department, answer questions and ...