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The effect of an intervention to break the gender bias habit for faculty at one institution: a cluster randomized, controlled trial.

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An intervention that facilitates intentional behavioral change can help faculty break the gender bias habit and change department climate in ways that should support the career advancement of women in academic medicine, science, and engineering.
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PurposeDespite sincere commitment to egalitarian, meritocratic principles, subtle gender bias persists, constraining women’s opportunities for academic advancement. The authors implemented a pair-matched, single-blind, cluster randomized, controlled study of a gender-bias-habit-changing intervention

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Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency.

TL;DR: Gender gaps in grant funding are attributable to less favourable assessments of women as principal investigators, not of the quality of their proposed research.
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National Institutes of Health addresses the science of diversity.

TL;DR: Four cross-cutting diversity challenges ripe for scientific exploration and opportunity are identified: research evidence for diversity’s impact on the quality and outputs of science; evidence-based approaches to recruitment and training; individual and institutional barriers to workforce diversity; and a national strategy for eliminating barriers to career transition.
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Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems.

TL;DR: This work provides a comprehensive theoretical review and organization of a psychologically informed approach to social problems, one that encompasses a wide-range of interventions and applies to diverse problem areas.
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A Vicious Cycle: A Social–Psychological Account of Extreme Racial Disparities in School Discipline

TL;DR: It is theorized that bias and apprehension about bias can build on one another in school settings in a vicious cycle that undermines teacher–student relationships over time and exacerbates inequality.
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Reducing Implicit Gender Leadership Bias in Academic Medicine With an Educational Intervention.

TL;DR: It is suggested that providing education on bias and strategies for reducing it can serve as an important step toward reducing gender bias in academic medicine and, ultimately, promoting institutional change, specifically the promoting of women to higher ranks.
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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control

TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
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Diffusion of Innovations

TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Diffusion of innovations

TL;DR: Upon returning to the U.S., author Singhal’s Google search revealed the following: in January 2001, the impeachment trial against President Estrada was halted by senators who supported him and the government fell without a shot being fired.
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A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes, arguing that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit and explicit knowledge.
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The Nature of Prejudice

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the dynamics of prejudgment, including: Frustration, Aggression and Hatred, Anxiety, Sex, and Guilt, Demagogy, and Tolerant Personality.
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