Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sheila writes about capability, age and talent sustainability. 2026 will be the year workplace age bias becomes impossible for ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. If you've ever heard the cliche "hindsight is 20/20," then you're familiar with hindsight bias. Hindsight bias — or the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rebekah Bastian writes about workplace culture, equity and belonging. There is a significant amount of discussion around bias in ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

Discover what cognitive biases are, how they can affect business decisions and strategies, and how to overcome them.

No one, however intelligent or educated, is 100% logical all the time. When ordering food at your favorite eatery, for instance, you likely won't analyze the pros and cons of every single item on the ...

In a new paper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign psychology professor Benedek Kurdi proposes a fresh approach to confronting implicit, or unintentional, bias in diverse organizations. He spoke ...

Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized the concept of cognitive bias in 1972, most empirical evidence has given credence to the claim that our brain is incapable of improving our ...

Deep learning models seem to prefer marketing to responsible research. For example, I just asked Gemini "How long does it take for an illiterate adult to learn to read?" The first response seemed to ...