Posts Tagged ‘bias’
In juvenile crime, race may affect sentence
STANFORD (US) — If people imagine a juvenile offender to be black, they are more willing to hand down harsher sentences to all juvenile offenders, a new study reports. Continue…
Thursday, May 24, 2012 17:13 - 3 Comments
Society & Culture - May 17, 2012 12:19 - 0 Comments
Big threat to women CEOs? Other women
WASHINGTON U.- ST. LOUIS (US) — Women who are high-status executives are often threatened by other women—and may not support them as potential high-prestige peers at work. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 9, 2012 10:17 - 4 Comments
Some anti-gay bias may be self-directed
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Homophobia is more pronounced in people with unacknowledged attraction to the same sex, according to a new study. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 6, 2012 10:26 - 3 Comments
Teachers may doubt girls’ skills in math
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — High school math teachers’ perceptions of their female students’ abilities may be skewed by bias. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 17, 2011 11:47 - 4 Comments
How to get (and give) better advice
CARNEGIE MELLON/ DUKE (US) — Advisers feel more empathy and may be more motivated to offer unbiased advice when they are advising one known recipient, rather than an anonymous group, new research shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 29, 2011 11:44 - 1 Comment
Voters savvy to newspaper bias
BROWN (US) — Newspaper endorsements for presidential candidates can influence voting decisions, but only if the paper’s pick is a credible one. (more…)
