# Psychology

**Source**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/psychology
**Parent**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks

[HAGMANN, David](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/hagmann-david)

[Discriminating by Accident](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/05/discriminating-accident)

[Gender Bias](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/gender-bias)

[Psychology](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/psychology)

[Information](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information)

[Discrimination](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/discrimination)

When people try to infer how well someone will do on a task, they often rely on group characteristics. For example, people who graduated from university may be perceived as more conscientious, leading employers to prefer those with degrees even for jobs that do not require specific knowledge related to the degree. In many cases, these inferences are likely
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/05/discriminating-accident)

[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]

[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/watch?video=01C2865CA53B3E08&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://osf.io/preprints/osf/cnv45_v1)

HUANG, Yunhui

[SENGUPTA, Jaideep](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/sengupta-jaideep)

[How Disease Threats Affect Our Shopping Baskets](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/how-disease-threats-affect-our-shopping-baskets)

[Consumer Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/consumer-behavior)

[Disease Cues](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/disease-cues)

[Psychology](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/psychology)

[Typicality](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/typicality)

Avoiding disease is essential for survival. Throughout history, deadly infections have forced humans to adapt their ways. One important strategy for protecting ourselves from infection, people avoidance , was recently studied by HKUST’s Professor Jaideep Sengupta and a colleague. Their experiments—carried out before the COVID-19 pandemic—reveal how the
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/how-disease-threats-affect-our-shopping-baskets)

[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

[Read Full Paper](https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/47/3/393/5860023)

HUANG, Yunhui

[SENGUPTA, Jaideep](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/sengupta-jaideep)

[How Disease Threats Affect Our Shopping Baskets](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/how-disease-threats-affect-our-shopping-baskets-0)

[Consumer Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/consumer-behavior)

[Disease Cues](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/disease-cues)

[Psychology](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/psychology)

[Typicality](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/typicality)

Avoiding disease is essential for survival. Throughout history, deadly infections have forced humans to adapt their ways. One important strategy for protecting ourselves from infection, people avoidance , was recently studied by HKUST’s Professor Jaideep Sengupta and a colleague. Their experiments—carried out before the COVID-19 pandemic—reveal how the
...
[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/08/how-disease-threats-affect-our-shopping-baskets-0)

[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]

[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/Watch.aspx?Video=74C6CDDA37AFCA02&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/47/3/393/5860023)