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The Cognitive Bias Codex. A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. [1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.
Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise, [5] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both effects ...
Clinical racial bias is an example where BIPOC are discriminated against in health care settings, leading to poorer health outcomes. “Whom we offer help to in an emergency, whom we decide to ...
According to a meta-analysis of 17 implicit bias interventions, counterstereotype training is the most effective way to reduce implicit bias. [14] In the area of gender bias, techniques such as imagining powerful women, hearing their stories, and writing essays about them have been shown to reduce levels of implicit gender bias on the IAT. [15]
How can unconscious bias impact a patient’s care? ... “The more someone believes that they face discrimination, the worse their mental and physical health. Worrying about how others are ...
Addressing gender bias in mental health care is, first and foremost, a systemic issue. Above all, providers, researchers, and lawmakers need to raise awareness of how gender bias impacts treatment ...
A particular form of unconscious bias Gladwell discusses is psychological priming. He also discusses the implicit-association test, [1] designed to measure the strength of a person's subconscious associations/bias. Gladwell also mentions that sometimes having too much information can interfere with the accuracy of a judgment, or a doctor's ...
Cognitive bias – Systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment; Cognitive dissonance – Stress from contradiction between beliefs and actions; Defence mechanism – Unconscious psychological mechanism; Delusion – Fixation of holding false beliefs