Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability

By K. Stanovich, R. F. West. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Links between intellectual humility and acquiring knowledge (2020, methodology): “The 41-item Composite Actively Open-Minded Thinking Scale (Stanovich & West, 2007) was used to assess open-minded and flexible thinking, including epistemological absolutism, willingness to change perspective, willingness to decontextualize, and the tendency to consider alternative opinions and evid”
Distinguishing the reflective, algorithmic, and autonomous minds: Is it time for a tri-process theory? (2008, background): “…literature in cognitive science on belief bias and the informal reasoning literature on my side bias, the easiest models to represent clearly appear to be those closest to what a person already believes in and has modeled previously (e.g. Evans and Feeney, 2004; Stanovich and West, 2007).”
Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition (2013, neutral): “The degree of effort that an individual expends on such processing is known to be a function of personality characteristics measured by scales such as Need for Cognition (Cacioppo & Petty, 1982) or Active Open Minded Thinking (Stanovich & West, 1997, 2007).”
The Cognitive Reflection Test as a predictor of performance on heuristics-and-biases tasks (2011, background): “Recent work on individual differences in cognitive function has begun to challenge this assumption (Bruine de Bruin et al., 2007; Oechssler et al., 2009; Stanovich, 2009b, 2011; Stanovich & West, 2007, 2008a, 2008b ).”
Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence (2013, background): “In an even more naturalistic paradigm, we studied a variety of biased beliefs based on one’s societal and demographic status (Stanovich & West, 2007, 2008a).”
Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test (2014, methodology): “This 41-item measure is scored in the direction that higher scores represented a greater tendency towards openminded thinking (Stanovich & West, 1997, 2007).”
Why does the Cognitive Reflection Test (sometimes) predict utilitarian moral judgment (and other things) (2015, background): “People with less myside bias (or none) think that they should question initial conclusions, while other people think that they should not question their prior beliefs (Baron, 1995; Sa, West, & Stanovich, 1999; Stanovich & West, 2007).”
On the distinction between rationality and intelligence: Implications for understanding individual differences in reasoning. (2012, background): “Myside bias, for example, is virtually independent of intelligence (Macpherson & Stanovich, 2007; Sá, Kelley, Ho, & Stanovich, 2005; Stanovich & West, 2007, 2008a, 2008b; Toplak & Stanovich, 2003).”
Cognitive Ability, Thinking Dispositions, and Instructional Set as Predictors of Critical Thinking. (2007, background): “Some studies have, however, revealed that thinking dispositions associated with epistemic regulation (e.g., actively open-minded thinking, dogmatism) are related to individual differences in myside bias (Klaczynski et al., 1997; Klaczynski & Lavallee, 2005; Klaczynski & Robinson, 2000; Sa et al., 20”
Questions and challenges for the new psychology of reasoning (2012, background): “In contrast with more formal measures of reasoning, this bias seems to be independent of cognitive ability (Stanovich & West, 2007, 2008a, 2008b).”
Culturally antagonistic memes and the Zika virus: an experimental test (2017, positive): “…– highly suggestive, highly inflammatory argumentative tropes that fuse risks to contested understandings of the best way to live – knit the two together in a fashion that predictably generates a crazy-quilt patchwork of risk controversies (cf. Toplak and Stanovich 2003; Stanovich and West 2007).”
Heuristics and Biases as Measures of Critical Thinking: Associations with Cognitive Ability and Thinking Dispositions (2008, positive): “Two thinking dispositions were measured—actively open-minded thinking (Stanovich & West, 1997, 2007) and need for cognition (Cacioppo, Petty, Feinstein, & Jarvis, 1996).”
On the failure of cognitive ability to predict myside and one-sided thinking biases (2008, methodology): “Stanovich and West (2007) defined the participant’s perspective as their previously existing status on four variables: their sex, whether they smoked, their alcohol consumption, and the strength of their religious beliefs.”
Intuitive and Reflective Inferences (2008, background): “people do it ( Stanovich & West, 2007 ), open-minded people do it (Stanovich & West, 2007),”