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• A Framework for Addressing Group Judgement Biases with Group Technology .
• Systematic biases have been found in both individual and group judgments, calling for research into debiasing approaches. ... Special attention is paid to two important judgment biases: representativeness bias and availability bias. ...

• Lesson Materials for Eta Characteristics, Biases, and Usage.
• This site provides instructional materials and guidelines for teaching forecasters how to account for the characteristics of the Eta regional model, including biases and sources of error, and to make adjustments to the model forecast based upon them. ...
• Assessing and Adjusting Eta Model Output Based on Biases.

• Publisher description for Heuristics and biases : the psychology of intuitive judgement / edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale W. ...
• The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s when Kahneman and Tversky introduced their 'heuristics and biases' approach. ... This book compiles the most influential elements of psychological research in the heuristics and biases tradition. The various contributions critically analyze the initial work on heuristics and biases, supplement these initial statements with emerging theory and empirical findings in psychology, and point to the most promising areas of future research on judgment. ...

• Biases in Dysphoria?.
• Attention Biases in Depressed States?Introduction.
• This paper will focus specifically on attention biases in n dysphoric individuals who are dysphoric (have sad mood states thought to underlie depression) rather than , rather than individuals diagnosed with clinical depression. ... That is, since cognitive biases are expected to be associated with prolonged sad mood, such biases may not be characteristic of all clinically depressed individuals. ... Thus, it might be easier to detect emotional information processing  biases in dysphoric people who do not necessarily meet criteria for depression than in a less homogeneous group of clinically depressed individuals. ...
• If emotional and non-emotional aspects of information are processed in parallel then, information-processing biases could occur as a function of attention to either affective aspects of information, or nonaffective aspects of information,, or feedback between systems responsible for representing affective and nonaffective aspects of information. ...
• Feedback between structures responsible for processing affective and nonaffective features could exaggerate these biases. ...
• As a sensitivity check, two shorter durations (100ms, 50ms) were also included, to make sure that there would be some duration short enough to allow cognitive effort sufficient to reveal biases. ...
• Because nondysphoric individuals also reacted 180ms faster to negative than to neutral stimuli,, the 20ms difference in biases between dysphoric and nondysphoric individuals was not significant. ...
• Terms representing the interaction of dysphoria and valence identification biases were entered on the third step. This technique allowedIn this way, examination of the unique contribution of valence-mediated reaction-time biases above and beyond dysphoria, as well as the role of dysphoria in moderating affective interference could be examined. ...
• Biases on the valence identification task accounted for 5. ... Interactions of dysphoria and valence identification biases were not statististically significant, DR2=. ... 1% of the variation in the difference in reaction times to negative and positive words on the lexical decision task was accounted for by biases on the valence-identification task, F(2,72)=4. ... Neither dysphoria nor interactions of dysphoria with valence identification biases explained significantly more variation, DR2=. ...
• Together, these findings suggest that depressed individuals may more easily recognize emotional qualities of negative than other information, and that such biases could be associated with difficulty responding to any other aspects of negative information. ...

• Lecture on Errors and Biases in Reasoning.
• Chapter 10 in Myers reviews the research on thinking, including material on errors and biases in reasoning. Errors and biases in reasoning is the focus of this lecture. ...
• Since we are interested here in studying errors and biases in decisions and judgments, we must address the following question: How can we demonstrate that a particular inference or judgment is faulty? .
• In much the same way, we can learn much about how we process information about the world--how we make judgments and inferences about events or behavior--by studying errors and biases. ...
• The second reason why the study of errors and biases is important is because despite the belief that most of us have that we make perfectly reasonable decisions and judgments that almost always turn out well, it turns out that we are sometimes very overconfident in our judgments--that is, our confidence often far outstrips our actual ability. ...
• But by being confronted by our own inabilities, through studying the nature of errors and biases in reasoning, this can help us be more vigilant in avoiding common sources of error in our future judgments. ...
• So if people are really bad at decisions and judgments, what can we do to improve our reasoning? First, I think it's important to simply realize that, from the literature on errors and biases, that we are worse at decision making than we think we are, and to admit that our judgments could be improved. ... Such a strategy may help us avoid confirmatory biases that so often lead to a bolstering of a theory we hold, even in the face of ambiguous or even contradictory evidence.
• In the domain of confirmatory biases alone, such biases can lead to profound consequences. ...
• Another study by Rosenthal and Jacobson demonstrates the self-fulfilling prophecy--that the ultimate effect of confirmatory biases may be to actually make it so. ... This study demonstrates the self-fulfilling prophecy--that the ultimate effect of confirmatory biases may be to actually make it so.
• Thus, errors and biases are not just limited to the domain of laboratory experiments. ...

• Gender Biases in Child Welfare .
• Gender biases are pervasive in child welfare research and practice. Although these biases have been addressed to some extent in the literature, there continues to be a lack of information on fathers and an overrepresentation of information on mothers, and thus the biases continue. This article explores how these biases are currently manifested in both research and practice and makes recommendations for changes in research, policy, and practice. ...

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• Camp Springs, MD Model Biases.
• Thus biases for these models are no longer displayed. ...
• The biases and model performance characteristics listed below are based primarily on HPC forecaster perceptions of model performance. ... Comments on any of these biases are welcomed. ... Readers should try to verify the existence of any of these perceived model biases before applying them to a forecast situation. ...
• If you have any questions about these biases, or believe that you have a bias which should be added/subtracted from the list, please contact Pete. ...
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• Biases Affecting Information Processing.
• Instead, there are several biases which affect the degree of influence a given amount of information has on our knowledge, beliefs, and decision making. Here, briefly, are some of those biases. ...
• Thus it is recommended that we examine our biases once a year, and always entertain the idea that we might be wrong in our beliefs. ...
• In addition to the above biases, several factors can hamper the best use of information. ...

• Hindsight Biases in Evaluation of Intelligence Reporting.
• Evaluations of intelligence analysis--analysts' own evaluations of their judgments as well as others' evaluations of intelligence products--are distorted by systematic biases. ... These biases are not simply the product of self-interest and lack of objectivity. ...
• Hindsight biases influence the evaluation of intelligence reporting in three ways:.
• None of the biases is surprising. ... What may be unexpected is that these biases are not only the product of self-interest and lack of objectivity. ...
• Psychologists who conducted the experiments described below tried to teach test subjects to overcome these biases. Experimental subjects with no vested interest in the results were briefed on the biases and encouraged to avoid them or compensate for them, but could not do so. Like optical illusions, cognitive biases remain compelling even after we become aware of them.
• The overall message to be learned from an understanding of these biases, as shown in the experiments described below, is that an analyst's intelligence judgments are not as good as analysts think they are, or as bad as others seem to believe. Because the biases generally cannot be overcome, they would appear to be facts of life that analysts need to take into account in evaluating their own performance and in determining what evaluations to expect from others. ...
• The discussion now turns to the experimental evidence demonstrating these biases from the perspective of the analyst, consumer, and overseer of intelligence. ...
• To the extent that intelligence consumers manifest these same biases, they will tend to underrate the value to them of intelligence reporting. ...
• Experiments that demonstrated these biases and their resistance to corrective action were conducted as part of a research program in decision analysis funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. ...
• All this leads to the conclusion that the three biases are found in Intelligence Community personnel as well as in the specific test subjects. In fact, one would expect the biases to be even greater in foreign affairs professionals whose careers and self-esteem depend upon the presumed accuracy of their judgments. Can We Overcome These Biases?.

• Careers, Choices, Costs, and Biases.
• Goldberg's book, which is an expose of the biases of the media elite, describes how female media executives who do have children drop them off every morning in daycare or leave them with a nanny, and then are fiercely hostile to any criticism of the plight of the children. ...

•   History & Cultural Biases of the West .
• Topic:   History & Cultural Biases of the West .
• Past claims of objectivity have biases clearly visible today, notably in siding with European settlers and slavers against non-christian cultures, and the almost total eclipse of female acts and experience from historical accounts.
• The sole purpose of this thread is to educate peoples, especially whites like yourself, about the major biases of so-called Western History. ...
• Also this thread is not about the ways of power, but the fact that history has been misinterpreted time and again by the West due to biases. ...

• My current research focuses on person perception and on self-favoring biases in social comparison. ... Downward comparison implies describing oneself or one's own situation as being better than others or, stated differently, openly showing self-favoring biases. Self-favoring biases are erroneous or exaggerated perceptions of differencesbetween oneself and other people, and more particularly self-other differences in a self-flattering or self-serving direction. They include, among other biases, unrealistic optimism or the expectation of a better future for oneself than for others, and illusory superiority or the perception of being a better and more competent person than others. I try to develop and to test theoretical explanations for these and other self-favoring biases and to explore their behavioral and social consequences. ...
• Self-enhancement and superiority biases in social comparison. ...
• Self-favoring biases, self-presentation and the self-other asymmetry in social comparison. ...
• 'Positive' and 'negative' self-favoring biases: Independent phenomena? Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15, 53-67. ...

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