Topic: Bias
How White Men, Discussing Race and Gender Inequities, Can Gain Credibility
Adding a note of personal advocacy to any factual statement helps a lot
How-To Guide for Happiness Surveys, Which Increasingly Drive Public Policy
Advice for researchers aims to help improve both data collection and its interpretation
In Pleas to Remedy Economic Inequality, Babies’ Faces Outperform Adults’
It’s harder to hold an infant responsible for being poor
Is a Bad Deed That Goes Unpunished Less Bad?
In experiments, immorality and harm are deemed more extreme merely because an act was punished
Is Telling the World of Your Success Worth Five Times Your Private Knowledge of It?
The difficulties of study design in a braggy culture where few readily admit to bragging
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics — and Data Visualization
How we interpret time-series data is dependent on the designer’s chosen format
Modest Financial Incentives Help with Weight Loss
Tying payments to weight, rather than behaviors, marginally more effective
Narrowing a Theory on Why Judges Get Tough before Elections
They do, but only when facing a competitive election contest
News from Venus and Mars: Genders Communicate Similarly atop Organizations
Analysis of 15 years of Wikipedia editors’ chatter reveals women of rank don’t shrink from controversial topics
Parents Who Favor Boys Raise Girls Who Score Lower in Math
A clue that parents prefer a son: They have more kids when their firstborn is a girl
Perceived Gender Equity: How 2016’s Election Widened a Gap
How vote outcomes affect feelings about society
Political Polarization Creates Minefield for Marketing Strategy
Liberals and conservatives respond differently to ads that reinforce or challenge stereotypes
Populism’s Rise in U.S. Isn’t Only About Anger
2016 vote shares for Trump and Sanders point to a mix of negative emotions
Quirk of the ACT Test — Rounding to a Whole Number — Offers Rare Isolated Glimpse of the Value of Scores
Tracking the impact of a small test-score difference on college attendance and later life
Racial Minority Hosts on Airbnb Profit Less, Have Fewer Customers than White Hosts
It’s worse in conservative neighborhoods and good reviews don’t help enough