Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ...

Bias in AI isn’t just baked into the training data; it’s shaped by us and embedded in the broader ecosystem of human-AI interaction. This cognitive bias emerges from the dynamic interplay between ...

The growing integration of artificial intelligence into educational, professional, and creative contexts is transforming ...

During World War II, researchers from the non-profit research group the Center for Naval Analyses were tasked with a problem. They needed to reinforce the military’s fighter planes at their weakest ...

The process of improving the synchronization between visual perception and motor skills is called visuomotor learning. It entails adaptation of movements based on visual information. This kind of ...

Negative memory bias, the tendency to remember negative experiences more easily than positive ones, can fuel cycles of ...

Small, subtle, instinctual biases in our heads affect our everyday decisions. Many of them are helpful: don't go into the woods alone at night. Some of them can be less helpful. The fact of the matter ...

We are not born with prejudice toward specific groups of people. Prejudice is learned and reinforced over time so deeply and in so many unintended ways that it has proved very difficult to reduce ...

Amanda Montell has come on Marketplace a few times about the cult of work. We talked about why culty workplaces, like Neiman Marcus in the ‘80s, are so effective. We’ve also talked about the downsides ...