Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others - PubMed (original) (raw)
Review
Objectivity in the eye of the beholder: divergent perceptions of bias in self versus others
Emily Pronin et al. Psychol Rev. 2004 Jul.
Abstract
Important asymmetries between self-perception and social perception arise from the simple fact that other people's actions, judgments, and priorities sometimes differ from one's own. This leads people not only to make more dispositional inferences about others than about themselves (E. E. Jones & R. E. Nisbett, 1972) but also to see others as more susceptible to a host of cognitive and motivational biases. Although this blind spot regarding one's own biases may serve familiar self-enhancement motives, it is also a product of the phenomenological stance of naive realism. It is exacerbated, furthermore, by people's tendency to attach greater credence to their own introspections about potential influences on judgment and behavior than they attach to similar introspections by others. The authors review evidence, new and old, of this asymmetry and its underlying causes and discuss its relation to other psychological phenomena and to interpersonal and intergroup conflict.
((c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
Similar articles
- Perception and misperception of bias in human judgment.
Pronin E. Pronin E. Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Jan;11(1):37-43. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.11.001. Epub 2006 Nov 28. Trends Cogn Sci. 2007. PMID: 17129749 Review. - Peering into the bias blind spot: people's assessments of bias in themselves and others.
Ehrlinger J, Gilovich T, Ross L. Ehrlinger J, et al. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2005 May;31(5):680-92. doi: 10.1177/0146167204271570. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2005. PMID: 15802662 - On attributing negative motives to others who disagree with our opinions.
Reeder GD, Pryor JB, Wohl MJ, Griswell ML. Reeder GD, et al. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2005 Nov;31(11):1498-510. doi: 10.1177/0146167205277093. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2005. PMID: 16207769 - Alone in a crowd of sheep: asymmetric perceptions of conformity and their roots in an introspection illusion.
Pronin E, Berger J, Molouki S. Pronin E, et al. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2007 Apr;92(4):585-95. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.4.585. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2007. PMID: 17469946 - How we see ourselves and how we see others.
Pronin E. Pronin E. Science. 2008 May 30;320(5880):1177-80. doi: 10.1126/science.1154199. Science. 2008. PMID: 18511681 Review.
Cited by
- Teachers' aggressive behaviors: what is considered acceptable and why?
Suryaningrat RD, Mangunsong FM, Riantoputra CD. Suryaningrat RD, et al. Heliyon. 2020 Oct 17;6(10):e05082. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05082. eCollection 2020 Oct. Heliyon. 2020. PMID: 33102833 Free PMC article. - Motivated Reasoning and HIV Risk? Views on Relationships, Trust, and Risk from Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa, and Implications for Oral PrEP.
Hartmann M, McConnell M, Bekker LG, Celum C, Bennie T, Zuma J, van der Straten A. Hartmann M, et al. AIDS Behav. 2018 Nov;22(11):3468-3479. doi: 10.1007/s10461-018-2044-2. AIDS Behav. 2018. PMID: 29404757 Free PMC article. - Bias in bias recognition: People view others but not themselves as biased by preexisting beliefs and social stigmas.
Wang Q, Jeon HJ. Wang Q, et al. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 9;15(10):e0240232. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240232. eCollection 2020. PLoS One. 2020. PMID: 33035252 Free PMC article. - "I Did My Own Research": Overconfidence, (Dis)trust in Science, and Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories.
Vranic A, Hromatko I, Tonković M. Vranic A, et al. Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 14;13:931865. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.931865. eCollection 2022. Front Psychol. 2022. PMID: 35910977 Free PMC article.
Publication types
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources