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
