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• Biases and prejudices are tendencies to favor or support or against a particular person, group, thing, or point of view over another, resulting in unfairness.
• Anchoring bias happens when people are too reliant on current information or the initial information they find in decision-making.
• Media bias happens when journalists and news producers in the mass media select what to report and cover.
• Confirmation bias happens when one tends to search for, interpret, favor and remember information supporting one's belief and views.
• Conformity bias happens when one makes a wrong or uncomfortable decision to fit in to please the group of people.
• Halo effect happens when one sees the wonderful thing about a person and let the perceptions on everything else about that person be distorted.
• Prejudice is prejudgment or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case.
• Racism is the idea that groups of people exhibit different personality characteristics and can be separated based on the dominance of one race over another.
• Sexism is a prejudice based on sex or gender.
• Classism is a prejudice based on social class or grouping of individuals as based on wealth, occupation, income, education, and social network.
• Ageism is a prejudicial attitude towards older people, old age, and the aging process.
• Religion is the attitude towards a person or group differently because of the particular beliefs about religion.
• We may avoid being prejudicial if we are mindful of negative attitudes and assumptions, careful of prejudiced language and avoid stereotypical statements about other groups of people, and speak out against intolerant statements and jokes made by the others.