The Theory Of Self Serving Bias

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

In this paper we will analyze and discuss unconscious biases in our personal lives, workplace and home. How we become aware of these biases, what causes

“An appreciation of the power of self-justification helps us understand, therefore, why people who have low self-esteem, or who simply believe that they are incompetent in some domain, are not totally overjoyed when they do something well.” (p..

Bias is something every person has; It is the inclination to feel prejudice towards a certain person, subject, or thing. On a personal level, bias affects just about everything a person could encounter, or has yet to encounter in their lifetime. There are two main types of biases people can have; Cognitive bias involves topics such as social attribution or memory errors, that are quite common and have a wide range of effects on how humans perceive things. The other type of bias is called social biases, or sometimes referred to as attributional bias. Attributional biases affect our everyday social interactions, and has a strong impact on people when trying to assess their own and others behaviors.

Information bias is a type of cognitive bias that describes the tendency to seek information when it does not affect action. People can often make better predictions or choices with less information: more information is not always better. An example of information bias is believing that the more information that can be acquired to make a decision, the better, even if that extra information is irrelevant for the decision. I find myself always trying to collect the most information possible and a majority of the time it is irrelevant to the final decision. One specific example of me using information bias, is when I was trying to decide which cough medication I should purchase. I read all the bottles and googled which product other people had like, but when it came down to finally making the decision I bought the cheapest one. All the research and reading were for nothing because ultimately, I didn’t use the knowledge to make the decision.

I don't think so at ordinary times but sometimes when I have to decide something, I feel that I have a cognitive bias. I wonder about cognitive bias and I want to know more. So I picked this for my topic. First, I found the definition of cognitive bias. On my way, I found a video about cognitive bias. The content is as follows.

Being tilted towards on side of thinking. We are all a little biased on one or more subjects. I don’t believe that bias has to do with race. Bias is to lean heavy on one side or another side of an argument.

An example for this would be getting a speeding ticket; the person would blame the cop for pulling her over and writing her a ticket, even though it was her fault for going over the speed limit, thus getting caught and reaping the results and punishment. Unassuming bias: is a tendency to relate personal success from a result of external things, such as help from others, or luck; failure is seen as a result of the person’s own weaknesses or mistakes. An example of this would be a high school student making the honor roll, and relating all of their success to their amazing teachers and tutors, rather than them putting in effort to earn the grades. Group-serving bias: is the tendency to explain the success and happiness of other people by internal factors, while failure by external factors.

The self fulfilling prophecy / perceptual bias, affects me personally in many ways. When meeting new people, everyone (including myself) has pre-conceived notations about a persons behavior, personality, and way of life solely based on the way they look. These observations can lead us to treat the person different based on these ideas about them that we formed before even meeting them. This is where the self fulfilling prophecy steps in. If these observations turn out to be true. It can lead one to believe they were “right” about that persons culture. Often times we will then begin to generalize people of that group, believing they all act like the one example we experienced.

After reading Edward E. Jones and Keith E. Davis’ essay: “From Acts to Dispositions: The Attribution Process in Person Perception”, and watching Dan Gilbert’s Ted talks, I came across a few ideas that I’ve never thought of before, and in addition to that, I acquired new insights from them, most especially Gilbert’s Ted talks. I also found relating themes between Jones and Davis’ essay and Gilbert’s Ted talk: “The surprising science of happiness” (2004), “Why we make bad decisions” (2005) and “The psychology of your future self ” (2014). The themes or keynote that I think stood out were our actions as humans, our perceptions, our decisions, and how these things affect us.

In case anyone thinks I have any bias opinions. I'm an 8th grade girl who doesn't really listen to these kind of things. But I do know what I want to change in this world. So in my imagination I Want to see a world where there are no wars, no fights, no violence. And I desire a world where kids, teenagers, and adults can reflect on our past and how someone fought for them.This is my

We are not perfect, we all make choices that can leave behind a negative or positive effect. I recently went through an experience in my life that will be perfectly described as a self-serving bias. Before I recall this experience I will provide you the definition of a self-serving bias. A self-serving bias is one’s “tendency to attribute one’s successes to stable internal causes and one’s failures to unstable external causes.” Since a self-serving bias in known to be an explanation of our behaviors and how our attitudes contribute to our failures and successes. Saturday night my group of friends and I made plans to try out this new bar called “The Well”. As responsible young ladies we decided that we’d be taking an UBER not only to the place

Bias and stereotyping can both be harmful for self-esteem and the developmental process in children. Bias is not only harmful for the target group since it lowers the self-esteem, but the group who feels superiority over the other is also harmed. The feeling of being superior disconnects a person from reality. Too much of self-esteem reduces the appreciation of others and may even slow down progress for the beholder. Stereotyping creates preconceived notions in the minds of children and adults due to which they fail to see others for what they actually are and rather judge them on the basis of information that is misguided and obsolete. Stereotyping results in developing strong perspectives of people who are different and causes prejudice.

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.

The self-comparison effect. The person who doesn’t do the job as we remember we did it when we held that job will suffer more than those those who do work unfamiliar to us.