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. 2012 Sep;103(3):506-19.
doi: 10.1037/a0028857. Epub 2012 Jun 4.

Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot

Richard F West^  1 , Russell J Meserve, Keith E Stanovich
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  * ^1 Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University,
    800 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
    westrf@jmu.edu

  * PMID: 22663351
  * DOI: 10.1037/a0028857

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Richard F West^  1 , Russell J Meserve, Keith E Stanovich

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  * ^1 Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University,
    800 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
    westrf@jmu.edu

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  * DOI: 10.1037/a0028857

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The so-called bias blind spot arises when people report that thinking
biases are more prevalent in others than in themselves. Bias turns
out to be relatively easy to recognize in the behaviors of others,
but often difficult to detect in one's own judgments. Most previous
research on the bias blind spot has focused on bias in the social
domain. In 2 studies, we found replicable bias blind spots with
respect to many of the classic cognitive biases studied in the
heuristics and biases literature (e.g., Tversky & Kahneman, 1974).
Further, we found that none of these bias blind spots were attenuated
by measures of cognitive sophistication such as cognitive ability or
thinking dispositions related to bias. If anything, a larger bias
blind spot was associated with higher cognitive ability. Additional
analyses indicated that being free of the bias blind spot does not
help a person avoid the actual classic cognitive biases. We discuss
these findings in terms of a generic dual-process theory of
cognition.

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