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Army Private Subjected to Anti-Semitic Attacks Brutally Beaten By Soldiers
PVT Michael Handman, 20, claims to have been the victim of intense anti-Semitic harrassment (being called "kike" and "fucking Jew," being forced to remove his kippot), and then subsequent...
anti-semitism, bias, disturbing, judaism, mlitary, news, religion, rels327, violence saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.pubrecord.org/religion/362-army-private-subjected-to-anti-semitic-attacks-brutall...

Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain: Scientific American
behavior, bias, cognition, perception, prejudice, psychology, race, racism, science saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=buried-prejudice-the-bigot-in-your-brain&sc=rss

Overcoming Bias: Be biased to be happy
To the degree that we're stuck with the biased minds we have, the evidence seems to be that it's better to be optimistic than pessimistic.
2008, article, bias, commented, happiness, optimism, pessimism, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/be-biased-to-be.html?cid=112925266

Overcoming Bias
If we know the common patterns of error or self-deception, maybe we can work around them ourselves, or build social structures for smarter groups. We know we aren't perfect, and can't be...
bias, blog, economics, hanson, philosophy, psychology, science saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.overcomingbias.com

Proof that men and women activate stereotypes of competence and sociability respectively
A man’s image associated with masculinity activates a mental structure of competence, whereas when we see a woman we activate the social one.
2008, article, bias, categorization, competence, gender, neuroscience, psychology, sociability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.physorg.com/news128260058.html

Overcoming Bias: Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
article, bias, cults, psychology, wikipedia saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/12/every-cause-wan.html

Foreign Policy: Why Hawks Win
Understanding the biases that most of us harbor can at least help ensure that the hawks don’t win more arguments than they should.
article, bias, kahneman, politics, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3660

Web Teacher › SXSWi: Go for IT! Attracting Girls to Technology
When a panel is given identical resumes that have the names changed to reflect different genders, a male name is chosen as the best person by both men and women who are doing the judging....
2008, article, bias, diversity, gender saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.webteacher.ws/2008/03/08/sxswi-go-for-it-attracting-girls-to-technology

Charlie Munger : THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN MISJUDGMENT
Speech at Harvard Law School (1995)
1995, bias, judgement, munger, psychology, speech saved by: meryn more details ...
http://vinvesting.com/docs/munger/human_misjudgement.html

Reality avoidance - Cognitive Edge
In psychology people talk about fundamental attribution error and from complexity theory we have the phrase retrospective coherence.
2008, article, attribution, bias, interpretation, retrospective-coherence, snowden saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2006/09/reality_avoidance.php

PsyBlog: 6 Quirks of Ownership: How Possessions Bend Our Perceptions
Behavioural economists argue that ownership - whether it's real, partial or virtual - has a strange effect on us.
2008, article, bias, ownership, perception, psyblog, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/04/6-quirks-of-ownership-how-possessions.php