In January 2019, Jade Alburo, librarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Island studies at UCLA, wrote a Twitter thread that recounted a patron’s experience searching another large academic archive.

Though there are guidelines for when a convicted criminal merits the death penalty (in states that still have capital punishment), ultimately, the jury makes the decision. A new study finds that the ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

Learn about self-enhancement, a bias by which individuals overvalue their own successes. Discover its implications, examples, ...

There are multiple types of bias we humans can exhibit. None of them require any particular malice aforethought. Rather, they are natural offshoots of human development. We unconsciously group things ...

Cognitive biases can pop up when your brain uses existing knowledge to make decisions quickly. In some cases, cognitive bias may lead you to make a snap judgment before thinking things through.