Artificial intelligence is increasingly used as a tool in many health care settings, from writing physicians' notes to making ...

A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same ...

Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods ...

From "try yoga" to "start journaling," most mental health advice piles on extra tasks. Rarely does it tell you to stop doing something harmful. New research from the University of Bath and University ...

As artificial intelligence tools become more integrated into everyday life, a new study suggests that people should think twice before trusting these systems to offer moral guidance. Researchers have ...

Republican-leaning economists tend to predict stronger economic growth when a Republican is president than Democrats do—and because of this partisan optimism, their forecasts end up being less ...

Bias in algorithms and unscrupulous tax preparers are among the drivers of bias in the IRS’s auditing Black taxpayers at higher rates than non-Black ones, an IRS researcher said as he provided ...

New research from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University reveals that some diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training methods may cause psychological harm. The ...

Hindsight bias is a well‐documented cognitive phenomenon whereby individuals perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were. This bias manifests through memory ...

A few years ago, UC Berkeley public health scholar Ziad Obermeyer found that an algorithm that affected health care for millions of patients routinely gave wealthier, white patients better access to ...

P ositionality statements, in which scholars declare identity categories to which they belong and indicate how such categories might bias their research, have become commonplace in the social sciences ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Todd M. Freeberg, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Animal behavior research ...