Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prejudice and stereotyping can negatively affect patient-provider communication. FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images There is increasing ...

Implicit bias is a term that’s being used with increasing frequency, and you may nod your head when you hear it but not fully understand it. So, what is implicit bias, exactly? Psychologists define it ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.

People form judgements about others from the way they speak, yet listeners are often unaware of their deeply embedded "implicit" biases. That's one of the findings from the British Academy-funded ...

This study did not directly measure motor resonance. Instead, the researchers used a test that measured levels of implicit prejudice. During the test, an image of a black or white face is flashed on a ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Say you're a white European American who truly believes that a person should not be judged by the color of his or her skin. Despite that egalitarian attitude, according to new ...

We accept that Shankar Vedantam finds psychological work on implicit prejudice compelling ["See No Bias," Magazine, Jan. 23]. But we object to his implication that we believe that it is "rational" for ...

Two groups of young men are walking on opposite sides of the street. One group is black, the other, white. Both are loud and swaggering, both have baseball caps turned to the back, both are ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.