Lecture 2: Naïve Realism

Question 1

What is perception shaped by?

Answer 1

Motives, goals, and needs

Question 2

What is the partisan trade off bias?

Answer 2

Most policies have side effects
- our own ideology (motives, needs, and goals) shape how we look at how unintended and unavoidable the side effects are

Question 3

How to reduce partisan trade-off bias?

Answer 3

Increasing trust between the two sides

Question 4

What is naive realism?

Answer 4

“I see the world as is”
- objective reality: naively see ourselves as the realist

Question 5

T/F: People underestimate the ambivalence of the other side

Answer 5

True. People tend to simplify the attitudes of the other side
- they see their own position as rational and the other as ideological
- the further their attitude is away from yours, the more we think they are biased

Question 6

What is introspection?

Answer 6

Confidence that we are not biased
- more confident about the position/attitude we have
- we access the contents of our thoughts, but not the psychological (often unconscious) processes that influence our thoughts

Question 7

T/F: Cognitive abilities moderate the bias blind spot

Answer 7

False. The bias blind spot still exists even if we know bias exists

Question 8

What is hindsight bias?

Answer 8

Things seem more obvious after the fact