News with Logic

Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series.

BY KER THAN

If your childhood involved countless hours spent capturing, training

Book Review

NONFICTION

By Neil Gross

BIASED

Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

By Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Last winter a cellphone video of an encounter between a white plainclothes Boston police officer and a young

Stanford psychologists find that brief exercises early in middle school can improve students’ relationships with their teachers, increase their sense of belonging and reduce teachers’ reports of discipline issues among black and Latino boys for up to

We all know it’s harder to ID people of different races, but our bias goes so much deeper

The Asian women were easy targets. They were a group the robbers predicted would not resist: middle-aged, frail, unfamiliar with English, and — crucially —

By Katharine Gammon

Illustrations by Viktor Koen

In courtrooms around the country, judges are embracing 24/7 Sobriety, a science-backed approach to managing people addicted to alcohol who repeatedly drive drunk. Every morning and evening, defendants