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Do we have a cognitive bias about how susceptible we are to cognitive bias?

Eric Barker
February 12, 2012

Cognitive bias? “Yes, other people deal with that, but not me”:

Three studies suggest that individuals see the existence and operation of cognitive and motivational biases much more in others than in themselves. Study 1 provides evidence from three surveys that people rate themselves as less subject to various biases than the âaverage American,â classmates in a seminar, and fellow airport travelers. Data from the third survey further suggest that such claims arise from the interplay among availability biases and self-enhancement motives. Participants in one follow-up study who showed the better-than-average bias insisted that their self-assessments were accurate and objective even after reading a description of how they could have been affected by the relevant bias. Participants in a final study reported their peerâs self-serving attributions regarding test performance to be biased but their own similarly self-serving attributions to be free of bias. The relevance of these phenomena to naïve realism and to conflict, misunderstanding, and dispute resolution is discussed.

Source: “The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others” from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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Title Do we have a cognitive bias about how susceptible we are to cognitive bias?
Author Eric Barker
Date February 12, 2012 9:54 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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