Understanding Mediation Beforehand
Predictably, my blog draws on my experience as a mediator. Once again, over the last few weeks, I have conducted more than one mediation where time was not taken prior to the mediation to explain to a...
View ArticleAppearances Do Count!
The other day, I conducted a mediation that lasted awhile which gave me the opportunity to converse with plaintiff’s counsel and to get to know her a little bit. As this was my first mediation with...
View ArticleBias: The Fat Lady is Guilty!
Recently, I came across a study on bias against fat ladies. Researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity found that a “significant bias” exists “…against female [obese] defendants...
View ArticleWhat ARE we afraid of?
This month I am giving a series of presentations before different groups with my colleagues Gemma George, Ph.D. and John W. Garman, LL.M., FCIArb on the “Ethical Duties of Eiminating Bias in the Legal...
View ArticleOvercoming Implicit Bias through Diversity
I never really thought about Implicit Bias being the flip side of Diversity or of Diversity being the antidote to Implicit Bias until I read two articles recently. One was in the December 2015 issue of...
View ArticleAlternative Facts
A few weeks ago, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” during a Meet the Press interview to defend President Trump’s assertion that the attendance at his...
View ArticleOver Confidence Can Kill!
My husband is known as an “aggressive driver” who, being impatient, takes unnecessary risks in his driving. When I mention these attributes to him, he retorts that he has yet to have an accident after...
View ArticleUnderstanding Mediation Beforehand
Predictably, my blog draws on my experience as a mediator. Once again, over the last few weeks, I have conducted more than one mediation where time was not taken prior to the mediation to explain to a...
View ArticleAppearances Do Count!
The other day, I conducted a mediation that lasted awhile which gave me the opportunity to converse with plaintiff’s counsel and to get to know her a little bit. As this was my first mediation with...
View ArticleBias: The Fat Lady is Guilty!
Recently, I came across a study on bias against fat ladies. Researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity found that a “significant bias” exists “…against female [obese] defendants...
View ArticleWhat ARE we afraid of?
This month I am giving a series of presentations before different groups with my colleagues Gemma George, Ph.D. and John W. Garman, LL.M., FCIArb on the “Ethical Duties of Eiminating Bias in the Legal...
View ArticleOvercoming Implicit Bias through Diversity
I never really thought about Implicit Bias being the flip side of Diversity or of Diversity being the antidote to Implicit Bias until I read two articles recently. One was in the December 2015 issue of...
View ArticleAlternative Facts
A few weeks ago, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” during a Meet the Press interview to defend President Trump’s assertion that the attendance at his...
View ArticleOver Confidence Can Kill!
My husband is known as an “aggressive driver” who, being impatient, takes unnecessary risks in his driving. When I mention these attributes to him, he retorts that he has yet to have an accident after...
View ArticleFamiliarity Does Not Make it True!
I came across an article the other day discussing a cognitive bias involving “familiarity” or truth vs. fiction. While the article (Seeing is Believing; how media myth busting can actually make false...
View ArticleAn Implicit Bias with Deadly Consequences!
I was watching Grey’s Anatomy the other night when an implicit bias crept into the story. One patient was a black woman in need of a kidney transplant. She explained to her new doctor that she did not...
View ArticleHubble and Webb and Unconscious Gender Bias!
One would think that the ability to look through either the Hubble or James Webb Space Telescope (and the other NASA major space telescopes) would not present an issue of unconscious gender bias. I...
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View ArticleOthering
Recently, I watched a webinar presented by the Beverly Hills Bar Association entitled “Unraveling Bias: Understanding Human Decision Making” by Denise Peterson, FCIArb, Attorney, Mediator, and...
View ArticleEven Our Four-Legged Friends Face Bias!
The Westminster Dog Show was held earlier this month, and I watched part of it. Owning two English Springer Spaniels, I watched the Sporting Group competition and then the Best in Show competition in...
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