Cognitive bias

thoughts can also play a role in how strong the feelings of dissonance are. 4. The greater the strength of the dissonance, the more pressure there is to relieve the feelings of discomfort. 5. Cognitive dissonance can often have a powerful influence on our behaviors and actions. While Consistency and Cognitive Dissonance Theory, show that one holds simultaneously…

Dictionary defines Cognitive Dissonance as: “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously” (Merriam-Webster). I feel that this can have a large impact on the quality of people working for a company. Some people will be able to adapt to the conflict they experience by the change of thoughts on a topic or change of one behavior. Also one may add some type of justification to be able to except the situation of conflict. Regardless when cognitive…

thoughts and beliefs (the cognitive component), your feelings about the idea (the affective component) and how you act towards the idea (the behavioral component). These components are not always consistent with each other but it is perceived that when they are inconsistent it makes us feel an uncomfortable mental state that motivates us to reduce this state. This state is known as Leon Festinger’s theory of Cognitive Dissonance (gawronski). It occurs most commonly when a cognitive and a…

encounter material that opposes their beliefs it causes feelings of discomfort. This relates to Cognitive Dissonance Theory, in which people try to remove dissonance when their beliefs, attitudes and actions differ from one another. Selective Exposure Theory proposes that people eliminate their dissonance by selectively exposing themselves to like-minded information because it calls for less cognitive effort to the process the new knowledge (Kim, 2015). It assumes that people are able to select…

Basis of Bias Imagine this scenario. A boss at a big company has to hire a new employee. There are two different resumes in front of them. The first one is for a young girl named Michelle and the other is for an older gentleman named Michael. That boss will do his best to pick the most experienced but bias will most likely come into play. If he has a bias against older people he will pick Michelle or if he has a bias against women he will chose Michael. There are many different types of bias. A…

We commonly look back and refer to history in order to progress. When we refer to the past, we are educated of our mistakes and can strive from our successes. However, we are not always truthfully exposed to everything that has happened in the past because things have either been left out, hidden or we have been diverted to other stories distracting us from them. Howard Zinn (51) argues that there is no such thing as impartial history, there is always two sides to every story. All history is…

world the media, in all of its many forms, plays a crucial role in informing the average American person, however, due this media bias this influence of the media is not always a positive one. The Media is a very broad category that includes information that comes from the Internet,…

As time progresses, media has been gaining more influence on our daily lives and opinions, but it has been starting to disseminate the facts and information about key topics. Since a lot of people rely on the media for information, it causes them to see an event from only one viewpoint, which causes their opinion to sway. One case of this, involving a current event, is when the media reported Trump’s decision to rescind the DACA, which is a policy that protects certain undocumented immigrants to…

year 10 and Miss Johnson, today I will be discussing how bias may be present in documentaries and feature articles. The feature article that is being discussed is remembering chernobyl written by Tobias Muenchmeyer and the documentary be discussed is bowling for columbine directed by Michael Moore. The definition of bias is ‘prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair’(dictionary.com, 2017), bias can also be a way to manipulate an individual's…

Bias is a reason to feel or show slant or preference for or against somebody or something. Each choice is affected by a scope of inclinations and predispositions. The primary point of the organizations is to acquire benefits and to accomplish it everybody bargains with morals and fairly inclination with their choices. We should know about our inclinations and work to limit the impact on choices, activities, and correspondence. Biases or differing perspectives influence the media, public opinion,…