The Self-Serving Bias Essay

Being of target of bias can affect socialization due to the negatives attitudes that it entails.

When discussing whether people have a bias or not, most people would answer that they do not have one or at the least not one they can think of. I too normally will answer that I do not believe I have a bias and tend to treat everyone and everything equally. But when we really sit down and reflex back on our thoughts and behaviors it becomes clear that most everyone has a bias of some type whether it is against or for a person, place or idea. Most everyone, including myself, has one or more biases that we contend with daily. In this paper, I will discuss my personal bias I have toward panhandlers, the origin of this bias, how it could maybe affect my career and possible solutions to my bias.

Implicit biases are “‘habits of mind,’ learned over time through repeated personal experiences and cultural socialization, which can be activated unintentionally, often outside of one’s own awareness, and are difficult to control” (Burgess, Beach & Saha, 2017, p. 372). Implicit bias is seen in the medical field partly because of the time pressure of medical visits, and the reliance on stereotypes in situations of high stress. It is difficult to study implicit bias because of social desirability. No doctor wants to admit that they are biased and, as a result, they are going to do their best to demonstrate the socially desirable response of being non-biased. However, research shows that bias and prejudice from health care providers toward patients exists, and leads to poorer care related to the assessment of cardiovascular risk and whether or not a patient is referred for additional treatment (Stepanikova, I., 2012). Even health care providers from one of the best health care organizations in the world, Mayo Clinic, struggle with

A considerable volume of psychological research has focused on the decision-making process in humans, from everyday decisions on what to buy in grocery stores to the global life decisions that will influence all other aspects of life. Some of these decisions involve making judgments about other individuals of our own species: what kind of a person are they? Do we like them? Are they fit for a given task? Although a lot of times humans answer those questions on a conscious level using anecdotal evidence or direct experiences, a growing number of studies have shown that subconscious ‘shortcuts’ consisting of fixed opinions about certain characteristics of individuals have dramatic influence on our perception of the people possessing those characteristics. These are referred

Women have expressed their political allegiance long before the dawn of modern era. However, the quest for equality has always been undermined by the male dominance throughout the history. Even in the most developed countries like the United States of America, women were not entitled to the same rights and privileges as men. “In Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote. The Supreme Court upheld state court decisions in Missouri, in which a registrar had refused to, register a woman as a lawful voter because the state 's laws allowed only men to vote”.

Over the winter, my dad wanted to visit some family members in Canada so my whole family decided to go together as a little vacation. At first, as we were going through the security checkpoint, we were laughing and messing around in Farsi, but all of a sudden we were stopped by a few security guards. They asked my father to step to the side so that they could do a random screening and my dad, although he gave no reason to be considered suspicious, agreed. However, this “random screening” began with the guards asking my dad where he was born, how long he’s lived in the United States, and what were his religious affiliations all the while looking at him as if they already knew he was dangerous without even allowing him to prove them wrong. As I was watching their exchange, I realized that society does not truly accept Middle Eastern people and their culture. Ever since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, racial bias has become more prominent against Arabs and Muslims and as a born American citizen with a Middle Eastern heritage, this bias is very clear to me, especially since I do not appear to be from a country in the Middle East. When I am alone with my friends, I am treated as an everyday American, not even given a second glance. However, when I am with my dad or any of my aunts and uncles, we are constantly given wary looks, as if we might be hiding something. This brings me to my main question, What can be done in order to make society more accepting of people

A social bias is a prejudice attitude aimed at a particular race, culture, ethnic group, religion, or sexual orientation. People with limited vision often form negative opinions toward a group of people without knowing who they are. People have to be careful with the thought process because it can lead him or her to make a judgmental statement toward an individual, or a group of individuals, without the person realizing that the statement or comment was prejudicial. In this paper the concept of social biases,

It is reasonable to argue that, over the last century or so, the United States has made great strides in addressing issues of injustice. Feminism, the Civil Rights movement, and activism from gay men and women have transformed laws and greatly changed the ways in which these populations were once perceived as inferior. There are still major conflicts regarding race relations, just as issues remain with other minorities and women's rights. At the same time, there has been remarkable progress, indicating a nation more aware of its ethical obligation to treat all equally. To some extent, this same awareness goes to the disabled. Unfortunately, this is a population still very much victimized by bias, and because

Most people in today’s society may believe that prejudice and discrimination mean the same thing and most people may not pay attention to the fact that there is a huge difference between the two terms. The main difference between these terms is, prejudice is a negative idea about a certain group of people or people of a particular race. The person usually doesn’t act on the idea, they mainly just keep it to themselves. Most would describe it as being a “pre-judgement”. Discrimination, on the other hand, is far much worse than just being prejudice. Discrimination is prejudice put into action/practice. This involves treating people harmfully and disrespecting them as an individual just because they don’t look like you or because they belong to a specific group of people. There are three different forms of discrimination and they are: Individual Discrimination, Statistical Discrimination, and Institutional Discrimination. Both of these terms falls under the category, racism. Racism is the most talked about thing in the United States today. I completely disagree with the term “racism” as a whole and I completely disagree that it is being taught. Blacks and whites of the United States should always be against racism. Racism is not something that we are born with--it is something that we are taught and honestly society, parents, teachers, and movies play a big role in it. Some can teach it the right way and some can teach it the wrong way, and this is where we went wrong in

Self- serving bias is assuming a good event is more likely to happen to you than a bad event. It is the tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to other leading factors. An example I found was in the very beginning of the debate, “Well, I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world’s population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals” (Transcript: The Most). This example said by Clinton is a self- serving bias because she makes trading seem like it is a hard thing, when we just need to be smart about trading. She makes it sound like Trump’s plan is bad while her plan is good. Clinton makes it sound like Trump’s plan for trading is bad because it would come back to the economic policies all over again. She wants people to think back to Reagan’s years when many people were against the “trickle-down” economics. Trickle- down economics is a theory that benefits for wealthy trickle down to everyone else. Tax cuts on businesses would give the businesses more money to spend on growing their businesses and creating jobs. Clinton is biased against the wealthy, but she is also

Jesus Colon in " Little Things are Big" is negatively affected by biases towards certain people in society, many ways are like in " A Teen and a Trolley Reveals Society's Dark Side." In the the article " A Teen and a Trolley Reveal Society's Dark Side" it says that " Tiffany varied the idea of a women. It also says that " If a women looks somewhat wealthy-- as represented by the business suit -- only 24% of her participants would sacrifice her. But is she was dressed as a waitress, 59% of the people offered to sacrifice her to save the other five. If the women was attractive, 44% of people would sacrifice her.

country becoming profusely diverse. Before entering kindergarten, millions of children in the U.S. will attend some type of preschool, Head Start, or daycare program. Given the current negative climate of our country due to the beliefs and values that have been taught and reinforced regarding race, gender, ability, socioeconomic status, family structure, religion, and political affiliation to people throughout their lives, young children need a program that includes an anti-bias curriculum. “With the rise in the number of working parents and children participating in group programs from an early age, preschools have also become an influential socialization force” (Berthelsen & Karuppiah, 2011, p. 3). It is important to teach children to respect

In past assignments I’ve spoken on behalf of my lack of privileges, and even in this assignment I will reflect on them the same way. Most people think that to avoid responsibility you have the privilege that others lack, but I feel that even when you lack the responsibility you still say the same things as someone who does not lack it.

Some major bias’s I found in myself where mainly just silly ones. These would be things such as me saying to myself, “why is she talking like that, she must be weird.” When in reality she could have been the nicest person I met that day but I automatically made a judgment about her and pushed myself away. Or me saying something to myself like, “ she’s really quite in class, she must be socially award.” These are bias’s that people have in their every day lives. I could go on and on about things that I have automatically judged somebody on when I had no idea if that was even the case. I’m not saying that I judge people all the time but what I am saying is that I am human, and it is what it is, but is that just another bias too? See, what I have learned is that biases will never go away. They are constantly happening. We can remind ourselves to not be so bias but it is in our human nature to do so without even thinking about it.

Social psychology, the study of how we think about, influence, and relate to another, can be used to explain many situations and phenomena that happen in the world. For instance, it can be used to explain why and how people react the way they do when they perform poorly in an act that they’re usually good at, also known as self-serving bias. It is blaming external factors when bad things happen, but contributing internal factors to the reason why good things happen.