Issues and events that are the object of social, political, or ethical controversy are bound to be construed differently by different individuals. This was illustrated by the study of what people on different sides of the political spectrum saw in a clash between protesters and police. When Fox News anchors proclaim that the United States should use enhanced interrogation techniques and that those who say otherwise are putting the country at risk, they have in mind harsh physical treatment of those who are indeed determined to kill as many innocent civilians as possible.
But when the talking heads at MSNBC take their very different stance, they have in mind the torture of minor al-Qaeda functionaries or innocent individuals who were accused of misdeeds by someone with a personal score to settle. Such footwear and eyewear exhortations are easy to offer but difficult to follow.
But the wisest ones in the room can at least try to distinguish disagreements about facts and interpretations from disagreements about values and preferences. But when they awoke the next morning, they learned that George W. Bush had inched ahead of Gore in the crucial state of Florida with its twenty-five electoral votes, giving him enough votes to stake a claim to the presidency. The very next day, however, the U.
And a few days after that, the U. Supreme Court blocked the recount altogether, with the majority arguing that allowing the vote to go forward would violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Democrats were quick to criticize the decision and claim bias on the part of the prevailing justices in the 5—4 decision that split perfectly along liberal-conservative lines.
They insisted that they were applying the law in an even-handed fashion. Shortly after the decision, for example, Justice Clarence Thomas told a group of students in Washington, D. Gore are hardly exceptional in this regard. Lee and one of his former students, Emily Pronin, asked people about how susceptible they were to a host of biases that plague human judgment. That is, they tend to take credit for success but deny responsibility for failure; they see their successes as the result of personal qualities, like drive or ability, but their failures as the result of external factors, like unreasonable work requirements or inadequate instruction.
You can probably anticipate their responses. Just as the average person especially the average liberal harbors doubts about the objectivity of the conservative majority in the Florida recount case, the respondents in this study thought that their peers were decidedly more susceptible to bias than they themselves were. It can distort our own views as well. Those motives exist, as we discuss further in chapter 3.
But they are not the whole story. We end up convinced that although our conclusions are in accord with our self-interest or the best interests of our group, those considerations played little, if any, role in how we evaluated the evidence.
We insist that it just happens that the most objective conclusion is one that serves us and people like us best. This was clearly demonstrated in a simple study the two of us conducted with Emily Pronin. We asked a large sample of participants to fill out a survey indicating their positions on various issues such as affirmative action, capital punishment, and abortion rights and how much they approved of various prominent political figures and media sources.
We then collected these surveys and redistributed them at random to other participants. Next, we asked the participants to rate how similar the views of the person whose questionnaire they had received were to their own views.
They also provide some perspective when we see liberals bitterly complaining about the views expressed on Fox News, or conservatives about what they see and hear on liberal media outlets. Nor did marked disagreement make them particularly open to the possibility that they had been less than objective. About The Authors. Thomas Gilovich. Lee Ross. Product Details. Raves and Reviews.
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Download Old Souls. When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues: someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict. What do these people know?
What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions? They begin by noting that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into people-their hopes, fears, passions, and drives.
It's true for the executive running a Fortune company, the candidate seeking public office, the artist trying to create work that will speak to the ages, or the single parent trying to get a child through the tumultuous adolescent years. To be wise, they maintain, one must be psych-wise. Gilovich and Ross show that to answer any kind of behavioral question, it is essential to understand the details-especially the hidden and subtle details-of the situational forces acting upon us.
Understanding these forces is the key to becoming wiser in the way we understand the people and events we encounter, and wiser in the way we deal with the challenges that are sure to come our way-perhaps even the key to becoming "the wisest in the room. Denn auch bei uns sind Geld-Harakiri- Verhaltensweisen an der Tagesordnung. Dazu sind jedoch nur wenige in der Lage. Auch in vielen Unternehmen geht man mit Misserfolgen nicht offen und ohne Schuldzuweisungen um.
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