Bias Blind Spot: Structure, Measurement, and Consequences

Irene Scopelliti (), Carey K. Morewedge (), Erin McCormick (), H. Lauren Min (), Sophie Lebrecht () and Karim S. Kassam ()
Additional contact information
Irene Scopelliti: Cass Business School, City University London, London EC1Y 8TZ, United Kingdom
Carey K. Morewedge: Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Erin McCormick: Dietrich School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
H. Lauren Min: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
Sophie Lebrecht: Dietrich School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Karim S. Kassam: Dietrich School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Management Science, 2015, vol. 61, issue 10, 2468-2486

Abstract: People exhibit a bias blind spot : they are less likely to detect bias in themselves than in others. We report the development and validation of an instrument to measure individual differences in the propensity to exhibit the bias blind spot that is unidimensional, internally consistent, has high test-retest reliability, and is discriminated from measures of intelligence, decision-making ability, and personality traits related to self-esteem, self-enhancement, and self-presentation. The scale is predictive of the extent to which people judge their abilities to be better than average for easy tasks and worse than average for difficult tasks, ignore the advice of others, and are responsive to an intervention designed to mitigate a different judgmental bias. These results suggest that the bias blind spot is a distinct metabias resulting from naïve realism rather than other forms of egocentric cognition, and has unique effects on judgment and behavior. This paper was accepted by Yuval Rottenstreich, judgment and decision making .

Keywords: bias blind spot; judgment and decision making; metacognition; self-awareness; advice taking; debiasing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (23)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2096 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:61:y:2015:i:10:p:2468-2486

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Management Science from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().