Bias blind spot - Definition and Overview

The bias blind spot is a cognitive bias about not compensating for one's own cognitive biases. The term was created by Emily Pronin with colleagues Daniel Lin and Lee Ross.

Pronin and her co-authors explained to subjects the better-than-average effect, the halo effect, self-serving bias and many other cognitive biases. According to that better-than-average bias, specifically, people are likely to see themselves as inaccurately "better than average" for possible positive traits and "less than average" for negative traits. When subsequently asked how biased they themselves were, subjects rated themselves as being much less subject to the biases described than the average person.

See also

• list of cognitive biases.

References

• Pronin, E., Lin, D. Y., & Ross, L. (2002). The bias blind spot: Perceptions of bias in self versus others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 369-381.
• Pronin, E., Gilovich, T. D., & Ross, L. (2004). Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: Divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others. Psychological Review, 111, 781-799.

External links

• Emily Pronin: Am I as biased as you? (http://webscript.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/pronin/case.php)