Implicit bias affects everyone and can be extremely detrimental in the workplace and healthcare and education systems. Here's how to overcome it.

The human brain can process 11 million bits of information every second. But our conscious minds can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information a second. So our brains sometimes take cognitive shortcuts ...

The unconscious mind, often shortened to just “the unconscious”, refers to the processes that occur in the human mind automatically and that are not available for introspection. From our morning news ...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality defines the unconscious mind as an accumulation of feelings, thoughts, urges, desires, and memories that are outside your own conscious awareness.

Raise your hand if the concept of the unconscious mind brings to mind a cartoon iceberg, showing 10 percent of its mass above water shining brightly in the sun, and 90 percent underwater, dark, gloomy ...

The concept of a “Freudian slip” is that when a person misspeaks, they inadvertently reveal repressed or secret desires. The theory is well known, but there is little — if any — scientific proof that ...

Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. According to a 2021 study out of the University of Scranton, only eight percent of people ...

Unconscious memories flow beneath the surface of our daily lives, emerging when sensory cues in the environment, waves of familiar emotion, or specific contexts trigger remembrances of events from the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Globally, women encounter innumerable challenges in the workplace. One of the major challenges women encounter is unconscious gender bias ...