News tagged with implicit
Like rest of society, doctors implicitly favor whites over blacks
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Undecided voters may already have decided, study suggests
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Do "undecided" voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues are trying to answer.
Implicit political attitudes can predict future voting behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 25, 2008 |
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In many political elections, undecided voters come to a decision about who they will vote for only a few days before the vote, if not the very same day of the election. A new study in the journal Political Psychology reveal ...
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Stereotypes may affect female math ability
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A U.S. study suggests implicit stereotypes and gender identification may affect female math performance.
Citizens in 34 countries show implicit bias linking males more than females with science
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2009 |
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thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have - may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published ...
Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2009 |
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In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes ...
New study shows exposure to smokers in movies increases likelihood of smoking in the future
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 13, 2007 |
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A new study appearing in the July issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reports that watching an actor smoke on the big screen may make smokers more likely to continue smokin ...
Coke or Pepsi? Being distracted can make you more susceptible to ads
Apr 21, 2008 |
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A can of Coke next to the word "awesome"; a can of Pepsi next to a picture of a happy couple. Seem too basic to be effective advertising? Prior research has shown that reported attitudes towards brands are not affected by ...
Research Finds Photos More Useful Than Words for Memory Recall
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that pictures allow patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to better recognize and identify a subject as compared to using ...
Study suggests polls overestimate support for Obama, underestimate back for Clinton
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A new national study of voters who say they might vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses shows a striking disconnect between their explicit and implicit preferences, according to University of Washington researchers.
Counting every thought: What consumers see when looking at ads
Apr 21, 2008 |
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Thought-listing exercises are frequently used by researchers to gauge people’s reactions to advertisements. But a new paper in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research from the Wharton School of Business sugges ...
A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a ...
Emergency treatment may be only skin deep
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Doctors’ unconscious racial biases may influence their decisions to treat patients and explain racial and ethnic disparities in the use of certain medical procedures, according to Alexander Green from Harvard Medical School ...
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