My equation for behavior is Behavior = Biases + Self-Justification + Self-esteem. The first factor in the equation, biases correlates with behavior since there are many factors to it effecting behavior. One factor is actor-observer bias, which is the tendency for actors to blame their actions on situations, and observers to blame their actions on stable personality dispositions (Jones & Nisbett, 1971). This is shown to be persuasive by an experiment that had students take an intelligence exam, showing college students are more likely to explain other students failure in relation to their ability, but explain their failure by blaming the exam itself (Jones, Rock, Shaver, Goethals, & Ward, 1968; McArthur, 1972; Nisbett, Caputo, Legant, & Marecek,
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Egocentric thought is when people think of themselves as more involved in an event then they really are (Greenwald, 1980). An experiment showed this by having college students wear an attention arousing shirt with Barry Manilow and then enter a room full of other students seeing how many students noticed (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Participant’s thought fifty percent of people noticed, but only twenty percent actually did (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Showing we see the world through our own eyes and not the eyes of others, thinking they see us the way we see ourselves (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Self-serving bias is when individuals make dispositional attributions for their success and situational attributions for their failures. Research shows gamblers think their successes are because of skill and failure is because of bad luck, showing people rate themselves more positive than others (Breenberg, Pyszczyniski, & Solomon, 1982; Arkin & Maruyama, 1979; Gilovich, 1983; Poss & Sicoly, 1979; Breckler, Pratkanis, & McCann, 1991; Johnston, 1967; Cunningham, Starr, & Kanouse, …show more content…
Bringing up the idea of cognitive dissonance, the state of tension that occurs whenever an individual holds two cognitions that are inconsistent (Festinger, 1957). An example of this is how a survey was conducted to assess people’s reactions to evidence that smoking helps cause cancer. Nonsmokers believed the health report; smokers denied the evidence and concluded that both smokers and nonsmokers get cancer so it cannot be from smoking (Kassarjian & Cohen,
Egocentric thought is when people think of themselves as more involved in an event then they really are (Greenwald, 1980). An experiment showed this by having college students wear an attention arousing shirt with Barry Manilow and then enter a room full of other students seeing how many students noticed (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Participant’s thought fifty percent of people noticed, but only twenty percent actually did (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Showing we see the world through our own eyes and not the eyes of others, thinking they see us the way we see ourselves (Gilovich, Medrec, & Savitsky, 2000). Self-serving bias is when individuals make dispositional attributions for their success and situational attributions for their failures. Research shows gamblers think their successes are because of skill and failure is because of bad luck, showing people rate themselves more positive than others (Breenberg, Pyszczyniski, & Solomon, 1982; Arkin & Maruyama, 1979; Gilovich, 1983; Poss & Sicoly, 1979; Breckler, Pratkanis, & McCann, 1991; Johnston, 1967; Cunningham, Starr, & Kanouse, …show more content…
Bringing up the idea of cognitive dissonance, the state of tension that occurs whenever an individual holds two cognitions that are inconsistent (Festinger, 1957). An example of this is how a survey was conducted to assess people’s reactions to evidence that smoking helps cause cancer. Nonsmokers believed the health report; smokers denied the evidence and concluded that both smokers and nonsmokers get cancer so it cannot be from smoking (Kassarjian & Cohen,