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Beginning in the 2011–2012 school year, a Rutgers University pilot program was instituted to permit students to choose their dorm roommates, regardless of gender. Members of the university's LGBTQ community told the administration that gender-neutral housing would help create a more inclusive environment for students. [29] [30]
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]
In evolutionary psychology, the Cinderella effect describes the phenomenon of a higher incidence of child abuse and mistreatment by stepparents than biological parents. It takes its name from the fairy tale character Cinderella, a girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters.
While supercommuters often conjure up images of parents locked into a lease in the suburbs and commuting into the city, a new type of traveler is emerging in the post-pandemic workforce: DINKs, or ...
A recent study of student evaluations of teaching (SET) from a large public university in Sydney focused on gender and cultural bias. [10] The dataset of more than 523,000 individual student surveys across 5 different faculties spanned a seven year period 2010-2016. There were 2,392 unique courses and 3,123 individual teachers in the dataset.
The hybrid, or flexible work, model has largely become the new normal. However, a new survey found that there is growing concern that "proximity bias" -- favoritism toward colleagues who work ...
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday to take up a case of Boston parents claiming an admissions policy had discriminated against White and Asian students.. The Boston Parent Coalition ...
Narrative bias, also known as narrative information bias, is a cognitive bias that skews perceptions towards information contained in individual narratives, ...