News tagged with racial bias
Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants from black and Hispanic patients
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation ...
'Colorblindness' hurts minority employees, but multiculturalism inspires their commitment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 18, 2009 |
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A new study by psychologists at the University of Georgia shows for the first time that whites' beliefs about diversity can hurt or help their minority peers.
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Poor and uninsured patients more likely to experience racial discrimination
Jun 25, 2008 |
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A new study in Health Services Research tried to disentangle the impact of a patient's racial and ethnic background, being poor and having no health insurance on the likelihood they would report having experienced racial ...
Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.
Study reveals surprisingly high tolerance for racism
Jan 08, 2009 |
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White people do not get as upset when confronted with racial prejudice as they think they will, a study by researchers at Yale University, York University, and the University of British Columbia suggests. This indifference ...
A face by any other name: Seeing racial bias
Oct 28, 2008 |
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If Barack Obama had taken his mother's surname and kept his childhood nickname, American voters might literally see "Barry Dunham" as a quite different presidential candidate, a new study suggests. A name significantly changes ...
Study shows weight bias is as prevalent as racial discrimination
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.
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 ...
Racial biases fade away toward members of your own group
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Mar 23, 2009 |
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White people don't show hints of unconscious bias against blacks who belong to the same group as them, a new study suggests.
Juries not as racially diverse as the communities from which they are drawn
Dec 03, 2008 |
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A new review of the literature in the journal Social Issues and Policy Review examines obstacles that prevent diversity on juries and the implications this has on jury performance. Results reveal that there are a wide range ...
Television shows can affect racial judgments
Feb 20, 2008 |
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A new study published in the journal Human Communication Research reveals that viewers can be influenced by exposure to racial bias in the media, even without realizing it.
Researcher proposes statistical method to enhance airport secondary security screenings
Feb 02, 2009 |
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A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has found that secondary security screening at airports is mathematically flawed, and has identified a way to select people for screenings more efficiently and fairly.
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