Confirmation bias

By human nature we constantly make attributions regarding the cause of other people’s behavior as well as our own behavior. We may strive to be objective, but nevertheless, we are prone to perceptual errors, or attribution biases, based on our own expectations. Often our expectations are based on assumptions that we have made about people. The fundamental attribution error refers to when we over-emphasize the role of dispositional factors in explaining other people’s behavior while minimizing…

Do people believe that the media can be bias and harmful? There are various answers for this question. The media can be very influencing to the world’s youth. It gives people an image of who they want to be. Some people don’t think that the media can be biased. However, the media can twist people’s perception of the news they’re giving them. The mass media is bias against people of a certain race, a certain body shape or size, and people with disabilities. The media can be biased against people…

values, it isolates them from the world behind the electronics. A majority of people, 77 percent to be exact, surveyed by the pew research center believe that there is media bias, while 53 percent said so in the same survey in 1985. Sixty-three percent (a majority of respondents) specifically cited Fox and CNN for having the most bias in their news coverage. Another survey shows that a majority of people believe their preferred news networks as credible while the other guys are biased. Another…

The overall strength of the dissonance can also be influenced by several factors. 1. Cognitions that are more personal, such as beliefs about the self, tend to result in greater dissonance. 2. The importance of the cognitions also plays a role. Things that involve beliefs that are highly valued typically result in stronger dissonance. 3. The ratio between dissonant thoughts and consonant thoughts can also play a role in how strong the feelings of dissonance are. 4. The greater the strength of…

they just know the side that the media gave them? It is a fifty to fifty chance, they could either be doing the right thing or the wrong thing. This is when media bias comes in. Media bias is not just a problem in America but worldwide. People who have some knowledge about the topic being broadcasted on TV may be able to point out the bias in it but people want to hear something new in the news everyday not the…

Bias exists in all areas of media as well as through various different outlets. Gun control has become a very prominent issue recently, mainly because the vast amount of innocent lives lost in recent shootings. Although there are some similarities between the Liberal and Conservative news articles, many things set them apart from one another, especially the presence of bias. The first article presents a Liberal perspective is an online article written by Alex Thomas for Intellihub. The second…

Media bias is found in every story and article published, each author twists and bends information to fit their views. With everyone trying to get their side across, we never actually get the entire story from just one source. For, example earlier this year in February, three muslim students were murdered by their neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks. This story was covered by many news outlets, including CNN and Fox News, who have both been known to be very biased. Two different sides of the story…

A cognitive bias is the common tendency to acquire and process information by filtering it through one's own likes, dislikes, and experiences. These biases are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics. There are many types of these cognitive biases, which influence the reasons why we think what we think. The cognitive biases are all the different ways that our brains process information and sort through situations. Novel experiences become part of our memory as we experience them.…

Merriam-Webster’s 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…

The first factor is my previous statement, the malfunction of the role of the facilitator. The second factor is the seats of the Resumption of Pre-Launch Meeting. In the meeting, inappropriate seats may aggravate the conflict between both sides. In the seats of the resumption meeting, on one hand, Emma Richardson as the facilitator sat in a wrong place, instead, she should sit in the middle of both sides. In this seat, she can observe the situation of meeting more easily, and it was convenient…