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This condition causes a slight to severe emotional reaction, for example anxiety, panic attack or most commonly nausea. [3] Herpetophobia is a common phobia and comes in many forms. Some people have fears of just looking at a reptile, some have fears of touching a reptile, and some cannot even stand knowing a reptile is in their space. Due to ...
Gender bias, a widespread [54] set of implicit biases that discriminate against a gender. For example, the assumption that women are less suited to jobs requiring high intellectual ability. [55] [failed verification] Or the assumption that people or animals are male in the absence of any indicators of gender. [56]
Though affinity bias may lead to unfair hiring and promotion practices, it can also serve to increase mentorship and endorsement such as through women's empowerment. [9] The bias can be mitigated by having managers find common ground with the employee, thus priming the manager to see the employee as part of their in-group. [10]
Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states. [1] It is sometimes said that animals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. [ 2 ]
For example: "The snake-motif was certainly not an individual acquisition of the dreamer, for snake-dreams are very common even among city-dwellers who have probably never seen a real snake." [ 38 ] [ 35 ] Still better evidence, he felt, came when patients described complex images and narratives with obscure mythological parallels. [ 39 ]
A 42-year-old woman in Denver purchased a new home—only to find it was infested with snakes. Here's how to keep that from happening to you.
[5] [6] Richard D. Ryder, who coined the term, defined it as "a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species". [7] Speciesism results in the belief that humans have the right to use non-human animals in exploitative ways which is pervasive in the modern ...
An implicit bias or implicit stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group. [1]Implicit stereotypes are thought to be shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and/or gender. [2]