People ignore minorities while generalizing about a group due to established cognitive biases

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Evidence from linguistic and cognitive research demonstrates that generalisation and cognitive biases frequently lead people and automated systems to overlook minorities and form stereotyped impressions of groups.

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The claim touches upon cognitive biases, stereotyping, and generalizing while ignoring minority nuances. Papers like [6] and [11] discuss how generalization mechanisms in language and systematic biases in evaluation lead to overlooking minority realities or over-generalizing group traits.

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Linguistic stereotyping in natural language: How and when we generalize in communication about people.

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Beukeboom CJ. Linguistic stereotyping in natural language: How and when we generalize in communication about people.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2025.2525799

Discusses how natural language generalizes across individuals, situations, and time to form and perpetuate social stereotypes.

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Potential to perpetuate social biases in health care by Chinese large language models: a model evaluation study.

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Liu C, Zheng J, Liu Y, Wang X, Zhang Y, Fu Q, Yu W, Yu T, Jiang W, Wang D, Liu C. Potential to perpetuate social biases in health care by Chinese large language models: a model evaluation study.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02581-5

Shows how large language models and cognitive systems systematically under-represent diversity and perpetuate biases against minority groups.

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first checked01 Aug 2026

judged → SUPPORTED · 7701 Aug 2026

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