Against the backdrop of simmering tensions over race and police violence against African Americans, police departments like the NYPD have introduced a relatively new training program aimed at teaching ...

The view of a stereotype as a fixed set of attributes associated with a social group comes from the seminal experimental psychology research by Katz and Braly (1933). One hundred students of Princeton ...

When Tina Sacks worked for the Centers for Disease Control years ago, she and her Black female colleagues would make it a point to wear their government IDs when going to the doctor for checkups, to ...

The healthcare industry is built upon the principle of providing equal and quality care to all patients, regardless of their race, gender, socioeconomic status or any other characteristics. As ...

Few people openly admit to holding racist beliefs but many psychologists claim most of us are nonetheless unintentionally racist. We hold, what are called "implicit biases". So what is implicit bias, ...

Implicit bias among health care providers factors into judgments and influences clinical decision making. The health of Americans has improved significantly over the past 50 years, as evidenced by an ...

One of the ongoing themes in my blog is impulsivity. Expending willpower can make us more impulsive, and affirming our core values, being in a good mood, or consuming glucose can reduce that effect.

When people live together, they develop implicit judgments to explain undesirable behavior of their partners. These become ...

Implicit marketing relies on the idea that consumers do not need advertising messages that coerce or persuade them into buying products and services. Relying on the packaging of the products, as well ...

Small businesses typically use explicit advertising, which involves short and direct sales messages to a target audience. Implicit advertising, on the other hand, works best when businesses want to ...