Attentional- Availability Biases | Cognitive Biases Series
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The content segments discuss various biases that can affect our judgments and evaluations. One such bias is availability bias, which involves making judgments based on recent or emotionally charged information. This bias can lead to inaccurate assessments of employee performance, child behavior, relationship satisfaction, mood, and pain. To overcome availability biases, strategies like journaling, anchored recall, and seeking exceptions can be employed.
Another form of availability bias is frequency illusion, where we start noticing something more frequently after it has caught our attention. This bias can be countered by seeking alternate perspectives and objective data to determine if the perceived increase is factual or a result of attention bias. Salience bias, on the other hand, involves focusing on prominent or emotionally charged aspects. Mitigating salience bias requires recognizing its existence and considering the bigger picture.
The salience bias can impact self-perception and mood, leading individuals to disproportionately focus on flaws or negative emotions. Overcoming this bias involves charting moods over time, practicing mindful acceptance, embracing dialectics, and eliminating cognitive distortions. The salience bias is also related to the partial picture bias, where individuals focus only on presented information instead of considering the whole picture. To counter this bias, gathering information from various sources and considering different perspectives is important.
The content also discusses attentional bias, which involves paying attention to recurring thoughts, whether they are based on facts or not. Addressing attentional bias requires becoming aware of recurring thoughts, recognizing that they are not necessarily facts, and examining the facts for and against those thoughts. Attentional biases can contribute to low self-esteem and increased anxiety, but by considering the bigger picture and examining the facts, distress and anxiety can be reduced, and self-esteem can be improved.
The content segments discuss various biases that can affect our judgments and evaluations. One such