talk of implicit bias is just another instance of progressives seeing injustice under every bush. For the left, implicit bias diverts attention from more damaging instances of explicit bigotry. Debates have become heated and have leaped from scientific journals to the p...
Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) is generally seen as an important part of the merit system, which often suffers from a lack of relevant voter information.doi:10.2139/SSRN.2766084Rebecca D. GillRafael OganesyanSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Implicit bias has a significant impact on the legal system. Evidence suggests that Black defendants are more likely to be treated harshly in the courtroom than White defendants. Prosecutors are more likely to charge Black defendants and less likely to offer them plea bargains. Plea bargains offered...
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One reason may be that its retention is required for its function in enhancing response times due to these being recorded from the time of stimulus onset to the production of a correct response following errors and negative feedback. However, one study found that speed of responding is in fact...
1. Recency bias What is recency bias? Recency bias is the tendency to focus on the most recent time period instead of the total time period. We also call this the “What have you done for me lately?” bias. If someone recently rocked a presentation or flubbed a deal, that recent perfo...
“So implicit biases are basically this [learning] system applying whatever information it’s learned, even if it’s negative and inaccurate, to whole groups of people,” she explains. Moreover, unless the process is interrupted, the brain will engage in confirmation bias by focusing on events...
With this bias, people overestimate their ability to predict an outcome beforehand, even though the information they had at the time would not have led them to the correct outcome. This type of bias happens often in sports and world affairs. Hindsight bias can lead to overconfidence in one’...
Sociology has recently seen a surge of interest in implicit culture, which refers to knowledge, habits, and feelings that are largely automatic and habitual. In this article, I argue that certain expressions of implicit culture may be more contextual and malleable than previously thought. The argum...