Bias in Bias Recognition

2020-10-08

Qi Wang, Hee J. Jeon. “Bias in Bias Recognition: People View Others but Not Themselves as Biased by Preexisting Beliefs and Social Stigmas.” PsyArXiv, 2020-02-27. Available in pdf format.

This is a nice supplement to the concept of confirmation bias, the tendency to highlight facts that support your current belief and to disregard facts that contradict your current belief. This study shows a similar tendency, the tendency to view others are more prone to biased thinking and yourself as less prone to biased thinking.