Selection bias

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

The Destructiveness of Jealousy and Greediness What made Othello, written by William Shakespeare in the 17th century, popular is that the play dealt with sensible topics as racism and race. The protagonist of the play is a dark skinned foreigner, surrounded by white characters. Othello’s race makes him sensible for criticism of the people around him, because he knows that he will always be the weaker ‘species’. But what is shown in this play is that it is not his race that will be his downfall.…

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…

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…