Juneteenth (June 19) marks the formal and permanent end of slavery in the US. Here is a Darwinian/humanist take on why this matters to all of us.

One of the most significant "experiments" on ingroup-outgroup bias was not carried out in the psych lab at all, but in the school room of an Iowa teacher, Jane Elliot.

Out-group bias leads men to exclude women from informal, career-enhancing networks. Out-group bias is most often expressed through (intentional or unintentional) exclusion, incivility, harassment ...

Conversely, “out-group” bias is the predisposition to have negative feelings toward and discount advice from people with dissimilar backgrounds.

The contributions of positive outgroup and negative ingroup evaluation to implicit bias favoring outgroups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022; 119 (40) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116924119 ...

Having a friend, loved one or trusted and valued colleague who belongs to the out-group can help you recognize their humanity and overcome the biases you hold against that out-group as a whole.

IMAGINE this: you have a great idea to make innovation work in your organisation, but nobody listens. While there could be many reasons why this is the case - such as the lack of a formal ideation ...