Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior: The introspection illusion as a source of the bias blind spot
By Emily Pronin, Matthew B. Kugler. 2007
320 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/504d2e521d21390bc4c04ca9a79129f4b494d266
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- M. Murray
- J. Schloss
- Geoffrey L. Cohen
- E. Uhlmann
- Nicholas A. Bowman
- Brian S. Lowery
- Adam Feltz
- R. Schaumberg
In General Decision Sciences
In Sociology and Political Science
- Brian S. Lowery
- Jay W. Brandenberger
- E. Uhlmann
- Robert Epstein
- M. Murray
- J. Schloss
- Geoffrey L. Cohen
- Ronald E. Robertson
Citations in the corpus
- Racial prejudice predicts opposition to Obama and his health care reform plan (2010, background): “Social psychologists have long known that people have difficulty discerning the causes of their own behavior (e.g., Nisbett & Wilson, 1977; Pronin & Kugler, 2007) and, moreover, tend to avoid reporting attitudes frowned upon by society (e.g., Block, 1965; Goldstein, 1960; Marlow & Crowne, 1961).”
- "I think it, therefore it's true": Effects of self-perceived objectivity on hiring discrimination. (2007, background): “Taken together, this research suggests that self-perceptions of objectivity increase people’s faith in the validity of their beliefs and thoughts, and perhaps even in the validity of their feelings and intuitions (cf. Pronin & Kugler, 2007).”
- Do you know more when it matters less? (2010, background): “Importantly, a wide body of research indicates that people view themselves as less susceptible than others to a host of cognitive and motivational biases, a phenomenon known as the bias blind spot (Pronin, 2006, 2008; Pronin, Gilovich, & Ross, 2004; Pronin & Kugler, 2006).”
- Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review (2011, background): “@The existence of deeply seated cognitive biases that cannot be eliminated or ought not be globally corrected is an important and plausible adjunct hypothesis to this account of SP, and indeed there are good reasons to think that just such pre-existing tendencies do exist. For example, our amply dem”
- Can 1st-Year College Students Accurately Report Their Learning and Development? (2010, background): “In general, people are confident about all kinds of self-knowledge, such as identifying factors that influence their decision making and knowledge of certain traits and characteristics, but they are often incorrect (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977; Pronin & Kugler, 2007; Wilson, 2002).”
- The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections (2015, background): “Invisible sources of influence can be harder to defend against (67–69), and for people who are impressionable, invisible sources of influence not only persuade, they also leave people feeling that they made up their own minds— that no external force was applied (70, 71).”
- Experiencing the Unexpected: Toward a Model of College Diversity Experiences and Attitude Change (2011, background): “…into their cognition than they actually do; that is, people confidently report what influenced their decisions, how their attitudes have changed, or what they have learned, but these “introspections” are often incorrect (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977; Pronin & Kugler, 2007; Ross, 1989; Wilson, 2002).”