Naive cynicism is a cognitive bias in which a person expects other people to be more driven by self-interest, or egocentric bias, than those other people actually are. It has been described as a form of psychological egoism and is studied both as a topic in psychology and in the philosophy of mind.
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Core ClaimNaive cynicism is a philosophy of mind, cognitive bias and form of psychological egoism that occurs when people naively expect more egocentric bias in others than actually is the case. 1 First Described Year Classification
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Naïve cynicism is a philosophy of mind, cognitive bias and form of psychological egoism that occurs when people naïvely expect more egocentric bias in others than actually is the case.
History, Formal laboratory experimentation (1999)
The formal proposal of naïve cynicism came from Kruger and Gilovich's 1999 study called "'Naive cynicism' in everyday theories of responsibility assessment: On biased assumptions of bias".
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Naïve cynicism is a philosophy of mind, cognitive bias and form of psychological egoism that occurs when people naïvely expect more egocentric bias in others than actually is the case.
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The idea that 'people naïvely believe they see things objectively and others do not' has been acknowledged for quite some time in the field of social psychology.
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