Questions tagged [bias]
For questions about systematic patterns of deviation in judgment from normative decision-theoretic expectations.
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Will stupidity ever disappear?
In an evolutionary and natural context, we may argue that stupidity should tend to disappear for obvious reasons. But in our current society, this does not appear likely to me, or at least obvious.
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Humans don't understand the accumulation of small numbers - what is this phenomena called?
I find that if you tell someone to give you 20$ vs. giving you 1$ everyday for 20 days - people react differently.
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Is there evidence to support the Dunning-Kruger effect?
The well known Dunning-Kruger effect is oft cited as a general explanation for why people with limited expertise overestimate their abilities. Other than the initial research that described this ...
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How can humans tell when something diverges from the norm
With this I mean the notion of humans being able to, for example, look at a painting and tell that something doesn't belong in there. For example sun glasses on the Mona Lisa, without prior knowledge ...
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Can one claim that a person is having cognitive distortion and be always correct?
What is cognitive distorion?
According to Wikipedia, "cognitive distortion are thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately". It is a negative outlook on reality, sometimes called ...
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What is the phenomenon of devaluing others' abilities called?
The Dunning-Kruger describes a cognitive bias where people evaluate their own skills as greater than reality.
I wonder about a similar situation wherein one underestimates the abilities of others. I ...
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Cognitive bias with trial and error problem solving
I found through self-observation that while solving some problem I am more inclined sometimes to first try and manipulate the variables that require the least amount of effort to manipulate, rather ...
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Is there a link between confirmation biases and a tendency to subscribe to religions?
I've just read Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly, as well as Mark Manson's Everything is F*cked, which I stumbled upon the concept of cognitive biases.
In the books they mentioned how ...
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Believing only one thing matters, when in reality, it was a chain reaction. What's the bias called?
Assume I had a business. That business would've been very close to be sold to a bigger company, if only I didn't mess up some of my papers. Thing is though, I didn't really only mess these papers. The ...
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I can't understand the comparison made by Kahneman [closed]
The chapter "Risk Policies", in Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", opens with this example, which makes vivid the pitfalls of relying on our intuitions in choosing between bets:
Imagine that you ...
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Does sexual orientation influence gender bias?
Let's take three people: Alice, Bob, and Carol. Suppose Alice is heterosexual. That should imply that Alice finds Bob attractive at some level, but not Carol. Does this mean Alice is more likely to be ...
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Cognitive bias believing you are good at the things you are bad at, as successes are more vivid?
What is the name for this cognitive bias?
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I am bad at socializing with people. For 95% of the time I talked to people, I was very awkward. Yet, mostly only 5% of the opposite time stuck to ...
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What is the name for this form of “influence”?
I have found that people are often "roused to action," activism and even zealotry by attributing either extreme of "nobleness" or "despicability" to their self or group identity.
I don't know if ...
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What is the difference between hindsight bias and confirmation bias?
I'm trying to understand better the influence of psychological biases on the financial market decision-making process.
Wikipedia describes hindsight as follow:
Refers to the common tendency for ...
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Can you prevent your biases from swaying your logic if you're aware of them?
As in the title.
Assuming you are aware of all your biases,and how they interact with your ideas, can you foresee how your biases will warp your judgement or logic, and stop that from happening?
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What is the term for the rhetorical, “How hard could it be?”
I looked through the wikipedia page listing cognitive biases looking for a bias that describes the tendency to assume a poorly understood problem must be simple. Planning fallacy is kind of in the ...
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Name of cognitive bias where people try to use all given information regardless of quality?
In psych class, I recall learning about a cognitive bias where people are inclined to use all information available to them when making a decision, even if some of the information would be better ...
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How is illusory superiority reconciled with the false-consensus effect?
On one hand, people often seem to exhibit various forms of illusory [self-]superiority, perhaps the best known example of that being the Dunning–Kruger effect.
On the other hand, the false consensus ...
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Do any personality factors reduce illusory superiority?
Apparently individuals suffering from schizotypy lack illusory superiority in one particular domain: evaluation of their affect. That is to say, neurotypicals overrate their positive affect (and ...
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What is the psychology behind blind spots? Why do we fail to see, what others see so clearly about us?
It’s absolutely imperative to identify our blind spots. I believe that they are impediment for one to reach his full potential. But how does one, see his blind spot - #oxymoron?
What is the ...
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In what contexts is loss aversion least controversial?
Loss aversion (and related phenomena like the endowment effect) are somewhat controversial, it seems; from Wikipedia:
Recently, studies have questioned the existence of loss aversion. In several ...
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How do you predict a cognitive bias theoretically using dual process theory?
Disclaimer: I am a complete layman in psychology, with no education in the field whatsoever. This question was prompted by my reading Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow", in which he discusses the ...
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conservative vs liberal: not related to rate of yes vs no
I am not a psychology major, so forgive me if I'm misusing terms.
So on an exam, we had a question about signal detection, and it defined a conservative person as someone who always tend to reply ...
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Name for a condition where one with their limited knowledge thinks of a problem as bigger than it really is?
I know about Dunning-Kruger... where to put it bluntly, one overestimates oneself.
I am looking for a definition/name, to further research and reference in discussions with my peers, for a bias, that ...
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Term/phrase for remembering the negative over the positive
I work in UX (user experience) which involves a lot of psychological principles to various degrees and came across an interesting thought about bad experiences.
My question is, is there some kind of ...
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What could explain the apparent association between high IAT bias scores and percentage of black americans per state?
The implicit Association test (IAT) measures your subconcious preference for white over black or the other way around. It does so by letting you do a task where you have to categorize black and white ...
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Defensive attribution vs Self-serving bias
What is the difference between "Defensive attribution" and the "self-serving-bias"?
Both seem to involve a practice where one would attribute our failures to circumstances and our successes to ...
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Perfect events in a random world?
I have a friend. They believe that God exists because they have experienced a large amount of 'perfect coincidences', or rather, events that are too perfect to be coincidences.
What kind of ...
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Why do people bid on online auctions sooner than a few seconds before it ends? [closed]
This is something that has always puzzled me about human behavior on online auction platforms. I am talking about a specific platform where you can sell almost any item you want with a starting bid ...
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Cognitive biases ontogenesis
Are cognitive biases "hardcoded" into our brain or learned?
And have they evolved over time e.g. more cognitive biases could emerge evolutionally?
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Why don't the Big 5 personality traits have more neutral names?
Lots of different areas of study appropriate common-language terms as jargon words with a specific meaning in the context of that particular field, but the names of the Big 5 personality traits have ...
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Do other forms of bias have their own terminologies, similar to “Stockholm Syndrome”?
Three examples would be:
Someone who makes an expensive purchase, and even when they are met with objective facts stating why it was a inferior purchase, they continue to sing it's praise.
Someone ...
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Is the placebo effect a form of cognitive bias? [closed]
Recently I’ve been trying to get a better understanding for the cause and mechanism of the placebo effect. A friend suggested that the placebo effect is a form of cognitive bias, but I’ve had trouble ...
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Does psychology lose it's validity when the subject is versed in psychology?
Quite often, I find myself conforming to typical psychological principals, and exhibiting predictable behavior based on external stimuli. However, upon better research of the psychology behind past ...
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Need to define observation/phenomenon in order to study it, same replies to same political topics, different individuals
I was wondering if anyone could help me define my observation, in order to read some literature on the subject. I have some Cog. Psych. background but have never encountered this during my studies. It ...
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What is the bias that arises because a thing is way more common than the rest?
So I have a sentence: Hence this option is free of abundance bias
I've made up the phrase "abundance bias" and I want to replace it with the proper scientific term....
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What is the name of the bias that associate a thing as good because it has a relation to another good thing?
A customer buys X from "brand A" and has positive experience with it. "Brand A" also sells Y. Now the customer things it is good to buy Y because of his/her positive experience with buying X from ...
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Is there a name for the phenomenon of perceived repeated interruption?
Is there a documented name for the phenomenon of repeated social interruptions. It's something I've discussed with others who seem to share the observation that often, when one is alone in a public ...
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How can we get rid of the problems of misconception, assumption, and expectation?
I watched a TedX Talk that called "The Surprising Secret of Solving Problems Quickly" by Collins Key, about 3 problems that most greatly hinder our ability to solve intriguing problems. These 3 ...
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Is the belief that a consultant knows more than the team a form of cognitive bias?
I've noticed that many people assume that consultants know more than they themselves do and/or more than their team does. That is, when a team is stuck on a problem, some people believe that a ...
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What research is there on how people go from examining/gathering evidence to executing on a decision?
I'm curious what research there is about when/how people decide to stop evaluating or gathering evidence, and actually begin executing on an action, and how the order of information presented could ...
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Term for when the more you invest yourself in something, the less you agree to drop it
I have got a few examples::
For instance when someone buys something and it turns out that it wasn't worth it, and this person tries to convince himself that he made a good choice or that the product ...
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What is it called when I a person transfers his angry towards another person, instead of the person that cause and anger? [duplicate]
My significant other has described to me how he has always been the good child who received 4.0 in school, went to the marines was honorably discharged and always do things for his family. He says ...
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Correlation of g and Honesty, Rationality, etc?
Are there any meta-analyses reporting the correlations of g (IQ, general mental ability) with:
Honesty-Humility (e.g. in HEXACO model).
I know Conscientiousness (of Big Five) generally has zero ...
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Bias of finding others guilty of own shortcomings
I haven't been in cognitive sciences for long, but in my work I have noticed a curious pattern: Individuals who overwhelmingly attribute the responsibility of their own actions to external causes, ...
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What is a effective and interactive exercise to demonstrate cognition to a class
I'm new to this site so I may mess up here and there with the question process.
I need to come up with an interactive exercise for a class to demonstrate cognition. The problem is, I find cognition ...
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Why do people have different opinions about an object when they are given different information about that object?
I'm studying about perception in psychology. My teacher has an example.
In an experiment, the researcher gives two groups a photo of one person. To Group 1, researcher says "This is a scientist", ...
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What would be the Term for this Character Trait?
This might be the wrong place or way to ask this question but I'll give it a shot. It could be more related to literature but it does deal with a form of character or personality.
In Nathaniel ...
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Should I look at the data of an experiment before the dataset is complete?
For a research internship I am running psychological experiments online. As it takes a while until the experiment is done (meaning that enough people participated, so that a sufficient sample size is ...
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What's the difference between Confirmation Bias and the Affect Heuristic?
I've been reading "Thinking Fast & Slow," by Daniel Kahneman. At the end of Chapter 9, he introduces the "Affect Heuristic," a concept introduced by Paul Slovic that effectively states that people ...
