Every person in the world have different opinions between each other, which has caused conflict between us. There are plenty of conflicts around the world that’s going on with terrorism in the center of it (Strategy Page, 2005). This is due to people believing their ideals are right while other people’s ideals are wrong. Likewise, as tensions begin to boil over due to the difference between each other the world has once again been thrown into a dangerous spiral (Sternberg, 2003). When people always deny others’ opinions without listening to them it causes people’s conclusions on matters to not always be truly accurate because our minds warp things into our favor and this creates these biases within us (Lilienfield, Ammirati & Landfield, 2009).
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One example of bias is “Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek out evidence consistent with one’s views, and to ignore, dismiss, or selectively reinterpret evidence that contradicts them (p. 391). Conformation bias is one most common bias seen among people and societies. An extreme example of conformation bias is Hitler and his Nazis reformed their education system to benefit their propaganda by having a curriculum that insults jewish faith and praising aryan superiority (Galanter, 1980; Lalich,2004; Noakes & Pridham, 1983; Staub, 1989). This also happens in the united states, but it occurs at a lesser extreme. For example, a lesser form of ideological extremism is divide in American between democratic and republican ideals (Lilienfield, Ammirati & Landfield, 2009). Furthermore, another type of bias is blind spot bias which “refers to the belief that others are biased but we are not” (Pronin, Gilovich, & Ross, 2004). However, psychologist have come up with a to solve bias even though it has its
One example of bias is “Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek out evidence consistent with one’s views, and to ignore, dismiss, or selectively reinterpret evidence that contradicts them (p. 391). Conformation bias is one most common bias seen among people and societies. An extreme example of conformation bias is Hitler and his Nazis reformed their education system to benefit their propaganda by having a curriculum that insults jewish faith and praising aryan superiority (Galanter, 1980; Lalich,2004; Noakes & Pridham, 1983; Staub, 1989). This also happens in the united states, but it occurs at a lesser extreme. For example, a lesser form of ideological extremism is divide in American between democratic and republican ideals (Lilienfield, Ammirati & Landfield, 2009). Furthermore, another type of bias is blind spot bias which “refers to the belief that others are biased but we are not” (Pronin, Gilovich, & Ross, 2004). However, psychologist have come up with a to solve bias even though it has its