Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's well-documented that women in the workplace often face biases when seeking leadership roles, but new research is uncovering ...

Everybody knows that people fear public speaking even more than they fear dying. Right? Well, like many such “facts,” this idea is actually the result of a flawed survey question. In 1973, a poll ...

Automated decision-making tools are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our world. However, many of the machine learning (ML) models behind them — from facial recognition systems to online ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions — they ...