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 ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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 ...

During the 2016 election, the phrase “implicit bias” entered the national dialogue when Hillary Clinton used the term during the debates to describe how she was seen and treated differently than male ...

If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that all human beings belong to the same species, Homo sapiens. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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.

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, ...

Recent sceptical critiques of the evidence for implicit perception 15 have led to increased rigor and methodological creativity in attempts to document its existence. Although controversies remain, ...