Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Cognitive Sophistication Does Not Attenuate the Bias Blind Spot

Cognitive Style and Auditor's judgment: Does Cognitive Style mitigate the Impact of recency bias on the auditors’ belief revision process?

Abstract: The purpose of the present study is two-dimensional. First, provide more evidence of the effects of information order on auditors' beliefs, and secondly, examine whether auditors vary their beliefs in different cognitive styles. These goals were achieved through the use of experienced professional auditors. To determine the effects of information sequence, Hogarth and Einhorn’s belie...

Testing the Power of Game Lessons: The Effects of Art and Narrative on Reducing Cognitive Biases

Educational games have proliferated, but questions remain about the effectiveness at teaching both in the shortand long-term. Also unclear is whether particular game features have positive effects on learning. To examine these issues, this paper describes a controlled experiment using an educational game that was professionally developed to teach about cognitive biases in decision making (Funda...

Perception and misperception of bias in human judgment.

Human judgment and decision making is distorted by an array of cognitive, perceptual and motivational biases. Recent evidence suggests that people tend to recognize (and even overestimate) the operation of bias in human judgment - except when that bias is their own. Aside from the general motive to self-enhance, two primary sources of this 'bias blind spot' have been identified. One involves pe...

Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior: The introspection illusion as a source of the bias blind spot ¬リニ

People see themselves as less susceptible to bias than others. We show that a source of this bias blind spot involves the value that people place, and believe they should place, on introspective information (relative to behavioral information) when assessing bias in themselves versus others. Participants considered introspective information more than behavioral information for assessing bias in...