On the failure of cognitive ability to predict myside and one-sided thinking biases

By K. Stanovich, R. F. West. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Predicting real-world outcomes: Critical thinking ability is a better predictor of life decisions than intelligence (2017, background): “In one study, Stanovich and West (2008) tested the hypothesis that more intelligent people would be more likely to avoid ‘my-side bias’ (the preference for conclusions and evidence that supports their world view) and more likely to prefer information that provided a balanced perspective on a…”
Culturally antagonistic memes and the Zika virus: an experimental test (2017, unknown): “On this account, ‘it is not people who are characterized by more or less myside bias but beliefs that differ in the degree of belief bias they engender’ (Stanovich and West 2008, 159).”
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).”
Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence (2013, methodology): “In that study (Stanovich & West, 2008b), we presented one group of subjects with Version 1 of the thought problem displayed in Table 3.”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “For example, intelligence correlates with the tendency to avoid some biases but not some others (Stanovich & West, 2008), yet to date, intelligence has been missing either as an antecedent or as a moderator in studies of entrepreneurial biases.”
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).”