Workplace
Hiring Bias
Fulfilling employment while favoring or discriminating against candidates based on irrelevant or unconscious factors (e.g., age, gender, race) during recruitment.
Affinity Bias
Favoring people who share similar backgrounds, interests, or experiences, often leading to lack of diversity.
Preferring one gender over another in roles, responsibilities, or evaluations, often disadvantaging women or nonbinary individuals.
Gender Bias
Beauty Bias
Assuming attractive people are more competent or likable, which can lead to favoritism in hiring or promotion.
Judging individuals’ work based on stereotypes or subjective expectations rather than actual performance (e.g., assuming women are less competent in leadership).
Performance Bias
Halo Effect
Letting a single positive trait (like attractiveness or education) overly influence overall judgment of a person.
Judging individuals based on their accent, often assuming someone with a non-dominant accent is less intelligent or capable.
Accent Bias
Discriminating against individuals who think or behave differently (e.g., autistic people, ADHD), often due to misunderstanding or lack of awareness.
Neurodiversity Bias
Communication Bias
Misjudging someone’s intelligence or intent based on their communication style, language fluency, tone, or accent.
Holding different groups to different expectations or criteria for the same behavior (e.g., assertiveness seen as leadership in men but aggression in women).
Double Standards
Likeability Penalty
Penalizing individuals for being assertive or successful, deeming them unlikeable or abrasive.
Recency Bias
Giving undue weight to recent events or information when making decisions (e.g., judging someone based on their most recent mistake rather than overall performance).
Leadership Bias
Assuming certain traits (often associated with dominant groups) make better leaders, excluding diverse leadership styles.
Racial/Ethnic Bias
Favoring one race or ethnicity over another, often due to stereotypes or systemic inequalities.
Name Bias
Making assumptions based on someone’s name (e.g., ethnic, gendered, or unfamiliar names)
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Criticizing or resenting people who achieve success or stand out, especially if they break traditional norms.
Interpreting and judging behavior based on the standards of one’s own culture, leading to unfair assessments of others.
Cultural Bias
Allowing one negative trait to cloud overall judgment about a person’s character or abilities.
Horns Effect
Beauty Bias
Seeking or interpreting information in a way that confirms existing beliefs or prejudices, while ignoring contradictory evidence.
Confirmation Bias