Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Where Social Discrimination Is the Name of the Game
An elegant experiment mapped social discrimination -based on how foreign someone’s name sounds in a given country – among European amateur football teams.
Survey Data Confirms Asian Americans Now Top Target for Harassment
Since the very beginning of the pandemic, hate crimes toward Asians and Asian Americans have gotten increased media attention. Our data, from the Understanding Coronavirus in America Study, confirms that these events are happening more often – and are not just appearing more common because of press coverage or public awareness.
Prejudice, Discrimination, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
For the people that are now out of work because of the important and necessary containment policies, for instance the shutting down […]
Can Academic Research be a Force for Good?
The greatest value of research is the positive impact it has on society. In this first blog post from a series looking at seminal academic articles from the SAGE Inspire collection, the editor of ‘Administrative Science Quarterly’ talks about a key 2016 piece on ‘whitening résumés.’
How Does Difficulty of Recruitment Impact Discrimination Against Applicants?
[We’re pleased to welcome Stijn Baert of Ghent University. Stijn published an article in ILR Review entitled “Is There Less Discrimination in […]
Iris Bohnet on Discrimination and Design
“As a behavioral scientist,” Iris Bohnet tells David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast looking at implicit bias, “I strongly believe that we now do have the insights and the tools to help us promote behavior change, not by changing mindsets but changing organizations.”
Beware! Big Data Is Not Free of Discrimination
Math can be immoral. too. Algorithms rarely come equipped with an explanation for why they behave the way they do, notes mathematician Jeremy Kun, and the easy (and dangerous) course of action is not to ask questions.
Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants
Discrimination becomes easier when its wrapped in the amorphous blanket of an applicant lacking certain ‘soft skills,’ suggests a news paper in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
