Confirmation bias can strengthen an illusory correlation, making it even more likely to influence subsequent actions – ...

Riot IQ, an emerging leader in online intelligence assessments, has launched the RIOT (Reasoning and Intelligence Online Test), the first scientifically validated IQ test designed for seamless online ...

The human tendency for confirmation bias, by which users preferentially read information ... as well as considering whether ...

A state law signed Feb. 28, 2025, removes gender identity as a protected status from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, leaving ...

We are social psychologists who study and teach about the basic social, cognitive and emotion-based processes people use to make sense of themselves and the world. Research reveals psychological ...

Heavy AI tool usage is associated with weaker critical thinking, a study finds, as users increasingly offload cognitive tasks instead of engaging in independent analysis. Elite athletes showed ...

The crypto market appears to have stabilized however traders are proceeding with caution while dealing with altcoins, like XRP, while continuing to rotate money into market leader bitcoin (BTC ...

This highlights that a general slowdown in processing might underlie broader cognitive and linguistic changes with age, rather than a specific challenge in memory retrieval for words. While the ...

Notably, when humans are scared, their cognitive and social biases are affected; they tend to feel more resentment which reinforces social stereotypes. "Exposure to emotion-inducing prompts can ...

They could offer a more nuanced way to measure AI’s bias and its understanding of the world. New AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and ...

Businesses leverage artificial intelligence to make more accurate, data-driven decisions—but those efforts can be seriously undermined by AI bias. Whether caused by low-quality or incomplete ...