Bias

aspect of attention that has gained a lot of popularity among psychological research is attentional bias. Attentional bias is a cognitive bias in which an individual’s perception is affected by their thoughts and emotions. (Cherry, 2015). This paper will analyze the past research done on the relationship between emotional disorders, such as depression and generalized anxiety, and the attentional bias…

Conformity bias happens when people act a certain way simply because they witness other people, such as higher rank authorities, doing the same thing. Giving people the feeling that they should do the same since there are added benefits to those actions, unethical…

Hindsight bias is around us on a daily basis. Say you were sitting in school and you had a test that day. You barely studied and just crammed into your brain as much knowledge as you could remember five minutes before the test. You begin to take the test and you just feel like you are getting all the answers wrong. You become very indecisive on what is the right and wrong answers to the questions. When you check the grade book a few days later and see that you received an A on the exam, you…

urges in their subconscious mind that never make it to the conscious mind for them to be acted on. The book, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, explores a similar idea in terms of unconscious bias and preferences present in everyone. The book also examines the relationship between our unconscious bias and our behavior. During Launch into Loras and the ropes course, some of these biases were present and affected the behavior of the group. For the most part, I only judged others based on…

Review of Literature Unconscious Bias People subjected to racism and bias attitudes often face a multitude of challenges when placed in racially hostile environments. One of these challenges is unconscious bias. “Unconscious bias refers to a bias that we are unaware of, and which happens outside of our control. It is a bias that happens automatically and is triggered by our brain making quick judgments and assessments of people and situations, influenced by our background, cultural environment…

Confirmation bias is when you refer back to the first impression and that will makes your impression of that person. Basically it is hard to undo your first impression and it's a barrier because your perception of that person always relates back to your first impression. Stereotype is a barrier to impression formation because making a pre-judgment before talking to the person will cause a wrong reflection of the way they are. stereotype is when you make your prejudgment based off of who they…

available alternatives that there could be. Often times we may think that we approach decision making in a logical way, but underlying biases in our thinking often cramp our ability to make more rational decisions. One example of a bias is the confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to maintain allegiance to your initial hypothesis despite strong…

The article titled “Parents and Vehicle Purchases for Their Children: A Surprising Source of Weight Bias” was published in 2010, and showcases the research efforts of authors Amanda Kraha and Adriel Boals. The purpose of the study, as explained in the article, seeks to build or add on to previous findings that detail the fact that individuals considered overweight are more likely than their slimmer counterparts to rely on their own sources of income to fund their education rather than by family,…

People tend to say, “Practice what you preach.” For many of us our cultural bias is exactly what we preach. Without the influence and the experiences from our own culture we would not be able to have values or beliefs that make us who we are. Culture is around us everyday. Weather you like or not culture has made you who you are today. What you believe in and values you take on the society with came from your culture. Many of us take what we have learned and received from our cultural…

and more natural as well as bring the consumer to have a favorable view of the company. Being an election year, we have seen many more political news stories than ever before. While it is often clear that some media outlets have an inherent bias, does that bias play a role in the election? To what extent does the…