The bias blind spot is the tendency for people to recognize the influence of cognitive and motivational biases on the judgment of other people while failing to recognize the influence of the same biases on their own judgment. The term was coined by the psychologist Emily Pronin and colleagues in a 2002 paper, which found that people rated themselves as less susceptible to a range of common biases than the average person, even while readily identifying those same biases in others. The effect is considered a metabias, a bias about biases, and it has been shown to be resistant to simple debiasing instructions, since being told about the bias blind spot does not reliably reduce a person's own tendency to exhibit it.
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Core ClaimPeople readily see bias shaping other people's judgment while missing that same bias operating in their own. 1 First Described Year Classification
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The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of recognizing the impact of biases on the judgment of others, while failing to see the impact of biases on one's own judgment.
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The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others
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The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of recognizing the impact of biases on the judgment of others, while failing to see the impact of biases on one's own judgment.
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Wikipedia article 'Bias blind spot' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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