
	Where results make sense

Topic: Egocentric bias

Related Topics

Maser

Leah Remini

Eumeces obsoletus

MV Empire MacCallum

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Egocentric bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egocentric bias occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would.
		Besides simply claiming credit for positive outcomes, which might simply be self-serving bias, people exhibiting egocentric bias also cite themselves as overly responsible for negative outcomes of group behavior as well (however this last attribute would seem to be lacking in megalomania).
		Michael Ross and Fiore Sicoly first identified this cognitive bias.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egocentric_bias (144 words)

	List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality (see also cognitive distortion).
		disconfirmation bias - the tendency for people to extend critical scrutiny to information which contradicts their prior beliefs and accept uncritically information that is congruent with their prior beliefs.
		egocentric bias - occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases (1116 words)

	Egocentric bias -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Besides simply claiming credit for positive outcomes, which might simply be (additional info and facts about self-serving bias) self-serving bias, people exhibiting egocentric bias also cite themselves as overly responsible for negative outcomes of group behavior as well.
		Micheal Ross and Fiore Sicoly first identified this (additional info and facts about cognitive bias) cognitive bias.
		See also: (additional info and facts about list of cognitive biases) list of cognitive biases, (additional info and facts about attributional bias) attributional bias.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eg/egocentric_bias.htm (155 words)

	Fundamental Attribution Bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Motivation: The egocentric bias is a motivational bias.
		This falls in with the egocentric bias and makes sense in that Judy and Trudy can only effectively evaluate their own performance and cannot effectively compare it to that of their roommate.
		Each child, exhibiting the egocentric bias, overestimated the amount that they contributed causing the total to be higher than 100%.
	www.southwestern.edu /~waldenl/egocentric.html (323 words)

	Review:Uncommon Sense
		Egocentrism is subjective thinking in all its aspects, and it is a basic aspect of the human condition.
		Egocentrism and animism are possible explanations for our need to believe in God, extraterrestrials, new age spiritualism, or anything else more powerful than ourselves.
		We are naturally egocentric, animistic, and anti-subjective, and formal operational thought is so difficult almost half of the population never reach that stage.
	members.cox.net /xocxoc/philosophy/uncommon.htm (1927 words)

	Research Approaches in Systematic Musicology
		Introspective case studies are often prone to egocentric bias.
		Experimenter bias includes phenomena such as expectancy effects where the experiment inadvertently conveys cues to the subject as to how the experimenter wants them to respond.
		The goal of sampling is to select a group that is representative of the general population in all respects, and to select a sufficient number (sample size) that permits some degree of confidence in the statistical inferences to be made.
	www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu /Music829C/glossary.html (6801 words)

	Active Skim View of: Social Judgment Biases in Comparable Worth Analysis
		Thus, ' + 'for example, there may be a bias against describing a woman\'s job as requiring a high degree of leadership or mathematical skill, as well as a bias against ' + 'describing a man\'s work as requiring a high level of supervision or interpersonal sensitivity.
		The lesser sex bias in ratings of skill than in ratings of responsibility may also be due to the fact that evaluating the skills required ' + 'of a job is a more objective task and thus less subject to the expectancy bias.
		The lesser sex bias in ratings of skill than in ratings ' + 'of responsibility may also be due to the fact that evaluating the skills required of a job is a more objective task and thus less subject to the expectancy ' + 'bias.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309035341&chap=53-70 (11599 words)

	Social Psychology Lectures - Dr. E. Pritchard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An egocentric bias occurs when one thinks of the world from one's own point of view too much.
		Hence, people make egocentric judgments, because the amount of information available for the judgment is greater for oneself than others, not because one is motivated to think better about oneself than others.
		Some evidence supporting this explanation is (a) basketball team members suggested the outcome of a game was due to an action by one of the members of their team, regardless of whether the outcome was a win or a loss.
	io.uwinnipeg.ca /~epritch1/social98c.html (1133 words)

	SSRN-Effects of Interactional Justice on Egocentric Bias in Resource Allocation Decisions by Kwok Leung, Kwok-Kit Tong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Three studies demonstrated that interactional justice was able to attenuate the egocentric bias, i.e., the tendency to regard a larger share for oneself as fair.
		Study 1, an experimental study of negotiation, showed that fair interpersonal treatment led to a smaller egocentric bias, quicker settlements, and fewer stalemates.
		Study 3, again an experimental study of negotiation, showed that, in support of fairness heuristic theory, when fair interpersonal treatment received could be attributed to an external cause, its attenuating effect on the egocentric bias disappeared.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=400440 (336 words)

	00-156 (Self-Perception)
		Additionally, Krueger found that participants’ descriptions of their roommates did not overlap significantly with their descriptions of the average student despite the fact their roommate was a member of the student body.
		Such an egocentric bias – the perception that the individual is more similar to the group than other members of the group are – may create barriers to the resolution of conflicts.
		The egocentric bias was demonstrated in this study, although most of the participating students indicated that they knew their roommates well and that they liked them.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2000-01/00-156.html (588 words)

	[No title]
		Egocentric bias leads people to overestimate the degree to which others' actions are directed at them.
		Hence they may perceive themselves to be a target of the other's actions, even when the other is not actually directing action toward them.
		Egocentric bias may cause a people to interpret other states' defensive acts as aggressive acts, and so intensify their image of the other state as an enemy.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/peace/example/stei5095.htm (1235 words)

	Social Perception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Also, (b) graduate students who had done an undergraduate thesis rated their contribution to the thesis as greater and were more positive about the thesis if asked "how much did you contribute" than grad student who were asked "how much did your thesis advisor contribute" to the thesis.
		Judgments of traits are subject to wishful thinking or egocentric bias more if they are ambiguous than if they are unambiguous.
		In social psychology, the question regarding our perceptions of others has been on whether people perceive the actions of others to be a result of their dispositions or a their situations.
	io.uwinnipeg.ca /~epritch1/socperc.htm (1610 words)

	Research: Self-Serving Attributions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Heider originally maintained, we are egocentric perceivers: we rewrite our personal histories so that we are the hero.
		Whereas isolated individuals tend to attribute positive outcomes to themselves and deny responsibility for negative outcomes (the self- serving bias), group members often display a group-serving bias: they attribute success to the group and blame failures on external factors.
		These findings suggest that the egocentric tendencies observed in individual contexts give way to more sociocentric tendencies when the individual becomes part of a cooperative group, but they also stress the cognitive rather than motivational foundations of these tendencies (Forsyth & Kelley, 1994).
	www.has.vcu.edu /psy/faculty/fors/ratt2.html (2258 words)

	U.S.S.R. - The Third World Countries & U.S.
		Yet, due to an irrational "secular" bias, science has persistently failed to see what the evidence clearly shows: our universe was created by an omnipotent God for a divine purpose.
		According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science.
		The egocentrism of modern man is quite evident in this perspective.
	www.spiritoftruth.org /j16.html (1484 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 19, No. 2 - July 1962 - BOOK REVIEW - Persons In Reletion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the earlier work Macmurray challenges the foundations of modern philosophy, proposing a substitution of "I do" for the "I think" of traditional philosophic inquiry.
		By this shift of premises, Macmurray hopes, the two fatal defects of philosophy on his diagnosis, its theoretical slant, and its egocentric bias, may be overcome.
		The first volume, while moving the angle of vision from theory to action, deliberately stands within the traditional context of an isolated self, thus remaining incapable of interpreting essentially social phenomena like morality, political theory, and religion.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1962/v19-2-bookreview4.htm (957 words)

	egocentric - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "egocentric" is defined.
		Phrases that include egocentric: egocentric bias, egocentric orientation, egocentric speech
		Words similar to egocentric: egocentrically, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoist, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, megalomaniac, selfish, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=egocentric (206 words)

	Kitts: The Social Roots of Norm Misperception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These predictions are evaluated in a field study of perceived normative consensus in five vegetarian housing cooperatives.
		Results fail to support the intrinsic bias argument, but demonstrate these forms of information bias.
		Also, by locating this structural effect only in large groups that facilitate private conversation, findings highlight the mechanism of selective disclosure.
	faculty.washington.edu /kitts/papernormmisperception.html (180 words)

	PSY211 General Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Study Questions on "The spotlight effect and the illusion of transparency: Egocentric assessments of how we are seen by others," by T. Gilovich and K. Savitsky, Current Directions in Psychological Science, December, 1999.
		The authors tell us that our thoughts on this matter are "egocentrically biased." What do they mean by this phrase?
		In summary then, what is the egocentric bias discussed in this article?
	www.bethelks.edu /dwight/gp/SQspotlight.html (311 words)

	Research Approaches in Systematic Musicology
		Use test-retest and other techniques to estimate the margin of error for any collected data.
		In a repeated measures design, the effect that the order of introducing treatment has on the dependent variable.
		Convince subjects to continue; investigate possible differences between continuing and non-continuing subjects.
	www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu /Music829C/methodological.potholes.html (1736 words)

	Cornell Psychology Department
		Ehrlinger, J., Gilovich, T., & Ross, L. Peering into the bias blindspot: People’s Assessments of Bias in Themselves and Others.
		Gilovich, T., Medvec, V.H., & Savitsky, K. The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one’s own actions and appearance.
		Kruger, J., & Gilovich, T. “Naive cynicism” in everyday theories of responsibility assessment: On biased perceptions of bias.
	comp9.psych.cornell.edu /people/Faculty/tdg1.html (931 words)

	[No title]
		Major bias: false consensus effect (social psychology; Ross) - tendency to overestimate extent to which others are similar to oneself; egocentric perspective: assume others know what I know (without checking)
		Initially, perspective is egocentric; use any available information to interpret, regardless of whether mutually known; fast and effortless (automatic Adjustment stage: attempt to correct initial perspective; slow and effortful
		Egocentric bias - Keysar - overhearers fail to consider possibility of alternative interpretations (take an egocentric perspective); Mark - restaurant - to recipient "Marvelous, simply marvelous"; Ss believe recipient interprets as sarcasm if Mark had a negative experience (even though recipient would have no awareness of this)
	www.bsu.edu /web/00t0holtgrav/619/OVER4.htm (996 words)

	study_sheet_social_exam1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cognitive consequences of self (egocentric bias, self serving bias, illusion of control, etc.)
		Explanations for the correspondence bias (Situations may not be salient, Discounting is difficult and Gilbert's Model, Perceptual assimilation and Trope's Model)
		Cross-cultural research on the correspondence bias (including when cultural differences are found)
	www.nku.edu /~krull/study_sheet_social_exam1.html (302 words)

	Mind Hacks: Own brand shopping
		Research published last year showed people are more likely to marry others whose names resemble their own.
		Now researchers in Paris have shown this egocentric bias extends to shopping - apparently, in certain circumstances, we're also more likely to buy products with brand names that share letters with our own name.
		The researchers said "We found that name letter branding influences choices only under one of two conditions.
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2005/11/own_brand_shopping.html (194 words)

	[No title]
		Perspective Biases A) We underestimate the importance of information available to others: 1) Winner’s curse 1: Acquiring a Company 2) Winner’s curse 2: Competitive Bidding B) We’re biased to think we are in the right 1) Confirmation Bias 2) One-sided Evidence Bias 3) Egocentric Bias (e.g.
		Do your best to investigate the information available to others that may influence their behavior.
		During the negotiation, critically evaluate concessions made by the other side, and be wary of your own bias to underappreciate them.
	www.duke.edu /~cfox/classes/ba421/files/Neg99-s4-ho.doc (745 words)

	[No title]
		Litigiousness and Egocentric Bias Litigiousness is predicted well by the difference in perceptions of fairness and it is predicted even better by the difference in predictions of the Superior court: Correlation with time to settle =.49; Corr.
		with whether or not the case went to court =.48 Low EC bias: 15.15 minutes to settle; 15% went to court High EC bias: 22.05 minutes to settle; 64% went to court¡PÀ%¯lªl- q>¦ 0HH ðº¢ ð ð0”q¢¿¿ÀÿðÜÿ ðZ¨Club West Results (1995)¡& ðH ð ð0“”Þ½h¿ÿ ?ð ÿÿÌÿfÿÿÌ33ÌÌÌÿ²²²î;ïù ÓðËðð¤ðcð( ð ð¤ði¢ ð¤ ð0ôq¢¿¿Àÿð@ cð,$ñD 0 ðÕ¨;5.
		Strategies for individual and joint gain * Final division of the $450,000 is predicted well by the midpoint between the two predictions of what the Superior Court will decide: correlation =.55 * In light of this information, does it pay to debias?
	www.duke.edu /~cfox/classes/ba421/files/Neg99-s3.ppt (453 words)

	Articles - Attributional bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There is some evidence that more intelligent and socially apt people are more likely to make errors in attribution.
		The most well-known and representative example of an attributional bias is the fundamental attribution error.
		See also: attribution theory, causal oversimplification, causality, list of cognitive biases
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Attributional_bias (255 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)