Publications

December 2007
Article

Bias in Jury Selection: Justifying Prohibited Peremptory Challenges

By: Michael I. Norton, Samuel R. Sommers and Sara Brauner

25 Apr 2016
News

#AirbnbWhileBlack: How Hidden Bias Shapes The Sharing Economy

14 Sep 2015
Video

2015 G&WS: Erin Hennes Presents “Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields”

12 Oct 2022
News

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

01 Apr 2008
Working Paper Summaries

No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman

February 2010
Article

Conflict of Interest and the Intrusion of Bias

By: Don A. Moore, Lloyd Tanlu and Max Bazerman

This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they exhibit... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Prejudice and Bias; Performance; Entrepreneurship; Market Timing; Competency and Skills; Perception; Business Startups; Resource Allocation

25 Jul 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

Keywords: by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger

2016
Working Paper

Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

By: Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger

Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official forecasts are especially optimistic relative to private forecasts ex ante, they are more likely also to be over optimistic relative to... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Macroeconomics

30 May 2024
News

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white, according to new research. Very few... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

take the gender bias out of job listings: Simply rewrite them. “Our minds are stubborn beasts that are hard to change, but it’s not hard to de-bias the application process,” says behavioral economist Iris Bohnet, a visiting professor at... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Jun 2022
News

Research Shows Racial Bias Is Real. Are We Ready to Talk about It?

2001
Other Unpublished Work

'Pure Accidents' and the Evolving Bias of American Liability Law

By: David Moss and Michael Fein

Keywords: Legal Liability; Prejudice and Bias; United States

Article

Choice Architects Reveal a Bias Toward Positivity and Certainty

By: David P. Daniels and Julian Zlatev

Biases influence important decisions, but little is known about whether and how individuals try to exploit others’ biases in strategic interactions. Choice architects—that is, people who present choices to others—must often decide between presenting choice sets with... View Details

Keywords: Nudges; Biases; Strategic Decision Making; Social Influence; Choice Architects; Choice Architecture; Reflection Effect; Certainty Effect; Loss Aversion; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence

Article

The BIAS Map: Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes.

By: A.J.C. Cuddy, S.T. Fiske and P. Glick

Keywords: Behavior; Groups and Teams; Attitudes

June 2010
Article

Correspondence Bias in Performance Evaluation: Why Grade Inflation Works

By: D. A. Moore, S. A. Swift, Z. S. Sharek and F. Gino

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Inflation and Deflation