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 ...

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.

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 ...