Author : Fadwa B. Elashi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Book Synopsis "You're Biased, and I'm Not:" The Development of Recognizing Biases in the Self Versus Others by : Fadwa B. Elashi
Download or read book "You're Biased, and I'm Not:" The Development of Recognizing Biases in the Self Versus Others written by Fadwa B. Elashi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although children have been shown to recognize biases in the early elementary school years, the prior research has only examined their recognition of biases committed by others. Given that adults have been shown to be blind to biases committed by themselves but not to biases committed by others (i.e., bias blind spot), three experiments examined whether and how the bias blind spot develops. Eighty-eight 7- to 10-year-olds (and 38 adults in Experiments 1 and 2, only) heard explanations of 16 behaviors that were biased or unbiased in nature, and were asked to rate how likely they think they and a specific other (Experiment 1) or an average child (Experiment 2) would commit the behaviors. Children were also asked to indicate their perceptions of each bias by marking each bias as either acceptable or not acceptable to commit. All age groups demonstrated self-other differences by rating themselves as less likely than others to commit biases, with 9- and 10-year-olds showing stronger self-other differences than 7- and 8-year-olds in Experiment 2. These self-other differences were present even after children exhibited the very bias they were evaluating (Experiment 3). Interestingly, the self-other differences observed for the biased stories were stronger than those observed for the unbiased stories (except for in Experiment 3). Compared to children, adults also reported that others are more likely to commit biases than themselves (although it was in the opposite direction in Experiment 1). Finally, children's perception of the biases was related to their willingness to admit to the biases (although a trend in Experiment 2) and, in some cases, related to their willingness to admit to others' biases. These findings suggest that, as early as when children begin to recognize biases committed by others, they are blind to the possibility that they also may have committed biases. Further discussion of these findings is discussed in the manuscript.
