We are blindly shutting ourselves off from some people, experiences and opportunities. The Similarity Bias spurs us, sometimes unconsciously, to keep people very different from us out of our lives.

Future research could also explore strategies to effectively reduce intergroup bias by leveraging shared identities or examining how similarity-attraction might interact with other factors like ...

Why? Because narcissists are initially attracted to each other. This makes sense. Similarity bias explains how we favor people who are similar to us, which is why including bias mitigation ...

This ‘similarity bias’ can lead to a lack of diversity in the workplace. Stereotypes can affect how managers perceive and evaluate the performance of employees. For instance, women might be ...

New research from the University of Sydney has found people tend to discriminate in favour of individuals who show a similarity to them, even when the ...