Unconscious Gender Bias Against Women Physicians

Unconscious Bias.

Interaction Between Race and Gender and Effect on Implicit Racial Bias Against Blacks

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Bias against women in higher scientific positions?

I read the recent Women in Cell Science interview featuring Joyce TaylorPapadimitriou (J. Cell Sci. 3, 371-372) and as a female scientist just starting my first post-doc it brought some questions to mind. She mentions that ‘although women make up 50% of the work force at the bench...there are few women in the decision making positions’. Is this because of a bias against women in these positions...

Running head: UNCONSCIOUS THREAT AND BIAS IN TIBET Unconscious threat and judgment bias in Tibetan Buddhists

Individuals who have been subtly reminded of death display heightened in-group favouritism, or “worldview defense.” Terror management theory argues (i) that death cues engender worldview defense via psychological mechanisms specifically evolved to suppress death anxiety, and (ii) that the core function of religiosity is to suppress death anxiety. Thus, terror management theory predicts that ext...

Gender Difference of Unconscious Attentional Bias in High Trait Anxiety Individuals

By combining binocular suppression technique and a probe detection paradigm, we investigated attentional bias to invisible stimuli and its gender difference in both high trait anxiety (HTA) and low trait anxiety (LTA) individuals. As an attentional cue, happy or fearful face pictures were presented to HTAs and LTAs for 800 ms either consciously or unconsciously (through binocular suppression). ...