Module 4: Self-Serving Bias Flashcards
What is self-serving bias?
The tendency to perceive oneself favorably
What is a false consensus effect?
The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one’s opinions and one’s undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors.
What is the false uniqueness effect?
The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behaviors
Social comparison
We seem interested in other people, and how other people react to things.
What are other people emotions, thoughts and feelings
Social comparison characteristics
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
Ex of social comparison
Baby fells and looks at you,
We look for other people for comparison
What is upward social comparison
Compare yourself to someone better than you
Can be a good Thing if you put a goal to reach
Motivation
What is downward social comparison
Compare yourself to someone worst than you
Feel relatively better
Information gathering
Tesser theory
The more similar you are to someone who out performs you the worst you’ll feel
Schadenfreude theory
Pleasure derived by someone from another persons misfortune
Feel good when someone who is classified as “amazing” fails or something bad happens to them
What is bias blind spot?
we know that people are bias (están de un lado) but we don’t know our own bias
BTAE means
Better than average effect
BTAE characteristics
Big bias
- I want to believe that I am good
- we put ourselves more than average we think we are better
BTAE example
Downward Social Comparison — confirms that we are better than average
Dweck study related to social comparison
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 )
What is unrealistic optimism?
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
What is the Dunning Krueger effect
It has to parts
- Those who think they know, don’t know
- Those who do know, don’t think they know
People who are bad at something tend to
Think they are better than they are
People who are good at something tend to
Think they are worst than they are
Ex of the Dunning Krueger effect
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
Those who think they know, don’t know
Those who do know, don’t think they know
What is a false consensus effect?
Believes you are always in the majority make me you be more negative to other people (minority)
Ex of false uniqueness
Sandwich sign
Not all people would do it, but actually a lot of people would
What is false uniqueness
Instance of the better than ever effect
I would do this because most people wouldn’t
In most studies if you have information on what other people would do
You would likely do it
What is motivation?
Doing to enhance your status
False uniqueness
What is cognitive?
Information is limit to yourself False conscientious (objective)
Differences between motivation vs cognitive?
False uniqueness vs false consensus
Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)
unexpected, surprising, negative
Inter atribution
Personality, emotional state
Focus is
A cognitive explanation
Study of focus
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)
Lassiter
He agrees with where the camera is, is going to affect on things
Lassiter study
Police video study
What is police video study about
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
What is coerced?
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
Overtime we start to become more
Observers
On past events you start to focus
On your own traits
What is the study of facial scar?
- 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
Conclusion of the scar study
The women who thought she had the scar was right that the other person was hostile, but it was because she was also hostile
