Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others.

By Emily Pronin, Thomas Gilovich, L. Ross. Psychology Review, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Morality and competence in person- and self-perception (2005, background): “Moskowitz, 2005). It has never acquired the prominence it deserves considering its ubiquity in social interaction (there is always an actor and an observer in social exchanges) and large differences in the way people perceive themselves and others ( Pronin, Gilovich, & Ross, 2004 ).”
Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced (2015, background): “Many people can recognize cognitive biases in other people but are terrible at recognizing their own biases (Pronin et al., 2004, 2002).”
Can Evidence Impact Attitudes? Public Reactions to Evidence of Gender Bias in STEM Fields (2015, background): “…results are seemingly counter-intuitive due to evidence that people are typically resistant to information that may cast them in a negative light (Pronin et al., 2002, 2004), particularly when it comes to intergroup biases (Moss-Racusin, Phelan, & Rudman, 2010; Rudman, Dohn, & Fairchild, 2007).”
Understanding the Third‐Person Perception: Evidence From a Meta‐Analysis (2008, background): “Cognitive explanations trace the self–other asymmetry in perception or judgment to some cognitive roots, attributing it to pitfalls in reasoning, deficiencies in knowledge structure, egocentric mode of cognitive processing, and so on (see Chambers & Windschitl, 2004; Pronin et al., 2004).”
Social cognitive neuroscience: a review of core processes. (2007, background): “It is plausible that a failure of this process in adults may play a central role in na¨ıve realism (Griffin & Ross 1991, Pronin et al. 2004), whereby individuals assume that others see the world the same way that they do and have difficulty acknowledging alternative viewpoints (see Lieberman 2005).”
The Evolution of Accuracy and Bias in Social Judgment (2004, background): “the bias blind spot ( Pronin, Gilovich, & Ross, 2004 ), which is the bias to not know you’re”
Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior: The introspection illusion as a source of the bias blind spot (2007, background): “E-mail address: epronin@princeton.edu (E. Pronin).”
"I think it, therefore it's true": Effects of self-perceived objectivity on hiring discrimination. (2007, background): “Insofar as individuals believe themselves to be objective perceivers of the world, moreover, they view their beliefs as valid, and they perceive those who hold different views as poorly informed or biased (Kenworthy & Miller, 2002; Pronin et al., 2004; Ross & Ward, 1996).”