Science is set up in a way that systematically penalizes research on females and female-related health issues…but not necessarily for the reasons you think.
In the fall issue of Public Opinion Quarterly in 1949, sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld pulled one of my favorite social science head fakes of all time.
Drawing on her nearly three decades of work on bias as a researcher and advisor to police forces across the country, psychologist and MacArthur Fellow Jennifer Eberhardt has penned a new book.
To fix the hiring process, we have to replace hubris with heuristics.
How might our sense about what we should solve, or even what qualifies as a problem worth solving, be biased by how we think about what we can solve?
Although simple heuristics often yield “biased” decisions, they can deliver a better answers. What might this mean for today’s complex algorithms?
Literature can open up a wider range of examples that illustrate core behavioral science principles.
We are excited to introduce a new feature, the Research Lead. Each month, we will highlight a handful of academic papers that we find interesting and important.
How can we design studies so that we learn from them, even if they “fail?”
Students from underrepresented groups are still told, in ways both systemic and subtle, that they don’t belong in higher education. New research suggests that true inclusiveness requires two types of policy.
