Positive Psych

He analysis conformation bias, hindsight bias, self-serving bias, and other types. When talking about conformation bias McRaney analysis that we have constructed our thoughts and opinions based on information we have accumulated based on our beliefs, while ignoring what the information against other opinions. A form of conformation bias that McRaney uses in page twenty-seven is: When you talk about a movie you haven’t seen in a long time and all of a sudden you are surrounded by information of said movie, you believe that fate is trying to tell you something. In reality conformation bias is occurring. You are have noticed more information about the movie because you have dismissed any other information. We seek out information that only enhances our beliefs and discriminates against the facts. Hindsight bias is relatable because we look at newfound information and speculate that we had already known it all along. Hindsight bias isn’t necessarily good because we have tendency to always wanting to be right, so after learning something new we edit our memories so we seem more factual than what we really are. McRaney states on page thirty-three that studies are the best way to demonstrate hindsight bias for researchers. Researchers can write a false statement in an article and we manufacture this information as our truth. Another form of bias McRaney talked about was self-serving bias. Self-serving bias

Avoiding research bias in studies is important to the development of objective, reliable information that can be used by the public. Check all of the situations that are likely to indicate research bias:

Scientists have begun to realize that positive thinking can not only help during conflicts,but during everyday life. An article from the Huffington Post gives insight into this,”The benefits of positive emotions don’t stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life” (Clear). James Clear (taking insight for notable psychology experts) explains how positivity improves emotion and life quality. He also states that positivity is a useful resource in all social situations as well as

Since I was young, I have always had an affinity of people watching, and trying to figure out what type of life they lived. Especially, what type of events would cause people to adopt a positive (happy) outlook in comparison to people that dwell on the negatives attributes? Growing up, my mother had a peculiar thought process that would always managed to lead to negative (not happy) thoughts. In the beginning, I too would follow similar thought process, but I quickly realized how exhausting it was to maintain. Before reading Shawn Achor’s book, I wanted to clear my mental database and allow for this new information to be absorbed into my life.

Do you have a friend who say things that are not true all the times? A friend who will point to selective events that help with their points while completely disregarding the events that goes against them? The ones that will tell you that they are on a hot streak after five wins and twenty loses. This person is demonstrating a sense of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to ignore or forget evidence that could disprove a prefer belief in favor of proof that would support the belief. People everyday has fallen victim to this fallacy when making important and mundane decisions. The problem is that people do not realize that they are committing this tendency. Understanding how confirmation bias appears in our decision making and training with that knowledge will help us avoid it.

Here are 10 examples of unintentional prejudices obvious to bystanders but which may go unnoticed by individuals participating in making unconscious decisions leading to bias.

A cognitive bias in which people will have the tendency to believe that a statement, idea, or information is accurate if it is either positive, meaningful, or if it’s personally addressed to them. Many people believe in biorhythms, horoscopes iridology, cold reading, and tarot cards because they appear to have the solution to their problems which is meaningful. In addition, many mediums and palm readers depend on subjective validation because it is easy to convince others that they are linked to unrelated events. (Pages 120, 122-123).

There are many everyday examples of people using confirmation bias behavior. A student doing research on only one side to an argument for a paper to confirm their thesis may fail to fully search the topic for information that is inconsistent with what they are writing about. Also a reporter who is writing an article on an important issue may only interview

The confirmation bias is the tendency to search for information that confirms our ideas and beliefs. This arises from our eargences to get a good solution. Often times most peopel seek evidence that supports thier ideas more readily than they search for facts that might refute them. Karen for example is using examples from the past regarding the election and who has won to demonstarte that her brother will win. "Karen your can't be serious. What about the issues, such as school poilces and procedures?" "Those issues don't matter. Regina Hoyt won becauseh she was populr last year. The only real issue is popularoty." This is an example of how Karen is searching for information that confirms her ideas that he brother will win the election because

Implicit personality theory, negative halo, attribution theory, ought self, and relational uppers are 5 specific concepts from chapter 3 that relate to the film. Implicit personality theory is “ the theory that we rely on a set of a few characteristics to draw inferences about others and use these inferences as the basis of our communication with them” (Richard and Turner 62). The way a person acts is a way that we believe communicate back. In the short clip of Cipher in the Snow, Cliff was quiet and kept to himself, because of this no one reached out to him.

❖ Confirmation Bias : has the tendency to find informations that can support and confirm an individual’s believes, but ignores anything that question or contradicts the

Originating from my previous example, I also agree with this feature within my personal philosophy. The time I spent in the classroom and graduate work contributed to my overall professional confidence. Through my newly founded understandings I felt better prepared to contribute to faculty discussions, but for the same reasons at certain point I became too confident. Though I was able to correct the behavior to reach a mean, I feel that I would have been able to just as easily returned to cowardice.

So with the idea of finding what influence a positive false belief had on people the researchers conducted the experiment. Also this finding of false positive belief would have a positive influence in a person behavior would have both theoretical and practical significance. It would demonstrate that it is possible to plant false positive memories in people and also it could conceivably aid in clinical treatment of certain disease (e.g. generalized anxiety phobia).

As researchers we need to be aware of our own biases and how they may influence the research we are conducting.

There is over 7.6 billion people in this world, meaning there is also a lot of different personalities. One of those are the negative people we all encounter in our lives. They make everyone around them miserable, and these people can impact your life in a negative way. For example: not being happy, having negative thoughts, and loosing friendships. Even if you try to stay positive someone’s negativity will always drain you. These people just complain and nag instead of being appreciative of the good they do have in their life.