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Module 4: Self-Serving Bias Flashcards

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What is self-serving bias?

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The tendency to perceive oneself favorably

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What is a false consensus effect?

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The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one’s opinions and one’s undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors.

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What is the false uniqueness effect?

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The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behaviors

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Social comparison

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We seem interested in other people, and how other people react to things.
What are other people emotions, thoughts and feelings

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Social comparison characteristics

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We verify about our own self-concept from other people (upward and downward intensify)

  • We choose who to follow
  • we are who we are with
  • Information gathering learn how to respond in this world
  • Engaging to social comparison
  • We use for other people
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Ex of social comparison

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Baby fells and looks at you,

We look for other people for comparison

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What is upward social comparison

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Compare yourself to someone better than you
Can be a good Thing if you put a goal to reach
Motivation

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What is downward social comparison

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Compare yourself to someone worst than you
Feel relatively better
Information gathering

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Tesser theory

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The more similar you are to someone who out performs you the worst you’ll feel

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Schadenfreude theory

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Pleasure derived by someone from another persons misfortune

Feel good when someone who is classified as “amazing” fails or something bad happens to them

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What is bias blind spot?

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we know that people are bias (están de un lado) but we don’t know our own bias

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BTAE means

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Better than average effect

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BTAE characteristics

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Big bias

  • I want to believe that I am good
  • we put ourselves more than average we think we are better
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BTAE example

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Downward Social Comparison — confirms that we are better than average

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Dweck study related to social comparison

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If you have a child he is taking a test and does really good or prey something and does really good.
You tell them “you are great” you are a hard worker (self efficacy )

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What is unrealistic optimism?

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Seem to be overly optimistic to the negative things that are gonna happen and positive things they think they are more likely than they are
Exaggerate
Humans tend to be overly confident about events that will happen in their life either positive or negative

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What is the Dunning Krueger effect

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It has to parts

  • Those who think they know, don’t know
  • Those who do know, don’t think they know
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People who are bad at something tend to

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Think they are better than they are

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People who are good at something tend to

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Think they are worst than they are

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Ex of the Dunning Krueger effect

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Measure of objective Sense of humor
How do you think you will score compare to other people
People who have a terrible sense of humor think they have a good one and vice versa

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Those who think they know, don’t know

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Those who do know, don’t think they know

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What is a false consensus effect?

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Believes you are always in the majority make me you be more negative to other people (minority)

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Ex of false uniqueness

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Sandwich sign

Not all people would do it, but actually a lot of people would

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What is false uniqueness

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Instance of the better than ever effect

I would do this because most people wouldn’t

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In most studies if you have information on what other people would do

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You would likely do it

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What is motivation?

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Doing to enhance your status

False uniqueness

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What is cognitive?

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Information is limit to yourself
False conscientious (objective)
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Differences between motivation vs cognitive?

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False uniqueness vs false consensus

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Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)

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unexpected, surprising, negative

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Inter atribution

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Personality, emotional state

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Focus is

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A cognitive explanation

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Study of focus

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Circle of chairs study
A person driving a conversation, two people in the center and 6 people around
Who is driving the conversation?
People respond according to the person they can focus on and facing them
(Both actually contribute to the conversation)

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Lassiter

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He agrees with where the camera is, is going to affect on things

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Lassiter study

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Police video study

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What is police video study about

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Police and criminal facing each other, camera in the center.
The dependent always confesses
Asking the observants : to what extent you think that confession was coerced?
If there is a camera facing the police officer, means that people will think that the confession is coerced(police reason for confess)
If it camera facing defendant then he really did it
CAMERA SHOULD BE IN THE MIDDLE

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What is coerced?

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Police officer forced the defendant
Pointing a gun
External attribution for
Who ever has the focus is going to lead the cause of the confession

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Overtime we start to become more

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Observers

38
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On past events you start to focus

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On your own traits

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What is the study of facial scar?

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  • they were interested in the effects of having a scar unfairly judged.
  • Women has a “scar” done with makeup
  • In the other room there is another subject and they have a free flowing conversation
  • There is an observer
  • Ask the women that thought to have the scarto rate how hostile (no amistoso) the person was to them. They say the other person
  • Control group women never had scar
  • the observers : the person who though they had the scar where more hostile. She was acting cold
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Conclusion of the scar study

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The women who thought she had the scar was right that the other person was hostile, but it was because she was also hostile

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