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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    For example, when getting to know others, people tend to ask leading questions which seem biased towards confirming their assumptions about the person. However, this kind of confirmation bias has also been argued to be an example of social skill; a way to establish a connection with the other person. [9]

  3. Affinity bias - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    These biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. For example, confirmation bias produces systematic errors in scientific research based on inductive reasoning (the gradual accumulation of supportive evidence). Similarly, a police detective may identify a ...

  5. Can AI Help Eliminate Hiring Biases & Create More Diverse ...

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    Creating and implementing an effective hybrid work policy is a collaborative effort that involves input from teams across the organization, including leadership, human resources, legal, finance ...

  6. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive bias mitigation and cognitive bias modification are forms of debiasing specifically applicable to cognitive biases and their effects. Reference class forecasting is a method for systematically debiasing estimates and decisions, based on what Daniel Kahneman has dubbed the outside view .

  7. Cognitive bias mitigation - Wikipedia

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    There are few studies explicitly linking cognitive biases to real-world incidents with highly negative outcomes. Examples: One study [11] explicitly focused on cognitive bias as a potential contributor to a disaster-level event; this study examined the causes of the loss of several members of two expedition teams on Mount Everest on two consecutive days in 1996.

  8. US Supreme Court widens scope of workplace bias suits - AOL

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    In a case testing the scope of federal workplace protections, the justices ruled 9-0 to throw out a lower court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the officer, Jatonya Muldrow, and ...

  9. Self-serving bias - Wikipedia

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    A self-serving bias is any cognitive or perceptual process that is distorted by the need to maintain and enhance self-esteem, or the tendency to perceive oneself in an overly favorable manner. [1] It is the belief that individuals tend to ascribe success to their own abilities and efforts, but ascribe failure to external factors. [ 2 ]