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Bias be gone! Can our unconscious prejudices be overcome?

  • Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Bias comes in more flavours than Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Well known biases of gender, race, age, class, weight, and media barely scratch the surface.

Psychologists catalogue numerous biases of hindsight and foresight, attention and memory, reasoning and...

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