News tagged with natural bias

Ecology biased against non-native species?

The recent field of invasion biology faces a new challenge as 19 eminent ecologists issue a call to "end the bias against non-native species" in the journal Nature.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

MU Study Finds Connection Between Evolution, Classroom Learning

Over thousands of years, humans have evolved to naturally understand things like facial expressions and social interactions. But a University of Missouri researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Kids show cultural gender bias

(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about gender confusion! A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology into whether speaki ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

People with easy to pronounce names win friends and favour

(PhysOrg.com) -- Having a simple, easy-to-pronounce name is more likely to win you friends and favour in the workplace, a study by Dr Simon Laham at the University of Melbourne and Dr Adam Alter at New York University Stern ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Media portrayal of race in sports reveals biases in corporate world

The U.S. may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of those 500 largest companies.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Real benefits of scientific research measured

Scientists have developed a new way to measure the benefits of scientific research, by looking at the difference it has made to real-life issues.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows racial differences in doctors' unspoken language

(Medical Xpress) -- When communicating with white patients, black physicians may face greater challenges than their white counterparts, according to a University of South Carolina study.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Decoding cosmological data could shed light on neutrinos, modified gravity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today’s most powerful telescopes collect huge amounts of data from the most distant locations of the universe – yet much of the information is simply discarded because it involves ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 104 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists find link between gene and sensitivity to emotional environment

Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that a genetic variant could make some people more sensitive to their emotional environment - and more susceptible to anxiety disorders - than others. The study, funded by ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Role of retail chains in inflation measurement and price dynamics

A study by Columbia Business School Professor Emi Nakamura, Chazen Senior Scholar at The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School and David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hanging with the boys – female Alpine marmots benefit from a bit of pre-natal testosterone

Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota) live in extended family groups of up to 20 individuals. The groups consist of a dominant territorial pair and a number of subordinate individuals, typically descendants of the dominant pair. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient dry spells offer clues about the future of drought

As parts of Central America and the U.S. Southwest endure some of the worst droughts to hit those areas in decades, scientists have unearthed new evidence about ancient dry spells that suggest the future could ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4


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