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social-psychology

Explore 4 cognitive biases related to this topic.

Risky Shift

9 min read

Risky shift is the tendency for groups to make riskier decisions than individuals would make alone, especially when responsibility is diffused across members.

Social Biases / Group decision-making

/ Group Risk-Taking

Ultimate Attribution Error

10 min read

The ultimate attribution error is the tendency to explain negative behaviors of outgroup members as due to their character, while excusing similar behavior in ingroup members as situational.

Social Biases / Intergroup attributions

/ Intergroup Attribution Bias

Outgroup Homogeneity Bias

12 min read

Outgroup homogeneity bias is the tendency to see members of groups we do not belong to as more similar to each other than they really are, while perceiving our own group as more diverse.

Social Biases / Intergroup perception

/ Outgroup Homogeneity Effect

Self-Serving Bias

11 min read

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute our successes to internal qualities and our failures to external factors, protecting self-esteem at the cost of accuracy.

Social Biases / Self-enhancement and blame

/ Self-Enhancement Bias