Table 1
Some Biases in Social and Cognitive Psychology.
| acquiescence bias | halo effect | naïve realism |
| anchoring | hindsight bias | outcome bias |
| availability heuristic | hot hand fallacy | outgroup homogeneity |
| base-rate fallacy | hypothesis-confirming bias | overconfidence |
| belief perseverance | illusion of control | pluralistic ignorance |
| biased assimilation | illusory correlation | prejudice |
| confirmation bias | implicit bias | representativeness |
| conjunction fallacy | ingroup bias | self-consistency bias |
| correspondence bias | just world bias | self-fulfilling prophecy |
| dogmatism | labeling effects | self-serving bias |
| ethnocentrism | law of small numbers | sexism, racism |
| expectancy bias | linguistic bias | social desirability |
| false consensus | microaggressions | stereotype exaggeration |
| false uniqueness | mindlessness | stereotype-confirming biases |
| fixed pie bias | misanthropic bias | system justification |
| fundamental attribution error | myside bias | unrealistic optimism |
Table 2
Hastorf and Cantril’s (1954) Results.
| PERCEIVED INFRACTIONS BY: | DARTMOUTH TEAM | PRINCETON TEAM |
|---|---|---|
| Perceiver Group: | ||
| Dartmouth Students (N = 48) | 4.3* | 4.4 |
| Princeton Students (N = 49) | 9.8* | 4.2 |
[i] * The difference between the starred means was reported as “significant at the .01 level” though they did not report what statistical test they performed.
