Bias in Our Lives
Incorrectly and unfairly assuming that everyone in a certain group has certain characteristics.
What is stereotyping?
A cognitive bias where people recognize the effect of biases on others but not on themselves.
What is the Bias Blind Spot?
The type of happiness that is made externally when you get what you want.
What is natural happiness?
The study of the strengths that make individuals and societies thrive.
What is Positive Psychology?
Simple strategies for increasing happiness.
What are Positive Psychology Interventions?
Personal opinions that influence our judgements, and cause us to favour one thing, person, or group over another.
What is Bias?
A cognitive bias where people think that their actions are more significant to others than they really are.
What is the Spotlight Effect?
The type of happiness that is made internally when you don't get what you want.
What is Synthetic Happiness?
An element of happiness that focuses on having positive experiences, like spending time with friends, buying a new car, or appreciating nature.
What is the Pleasant Life?
Imagining and writing about your ideal day
What is an Optimistic Intervention?
When people tend to pay more attention to negative events than positive ones.
What is Negativity Bias?
When people are overconfident in areas where they are not very skilled, or not as skilled as they thought they were.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
The satisfaction or disappointment based on the evaluation of someone's own life.
What is life satisfaction?
An element of happiness that focuses on pursuing one's strengths or passion, becoming totally engaged in the things they love and entering a 'state of flow'.
What is the Good Life?
Writing down 5 good things that have happened to you everyday, or writing a thank-you letter to someone from your past.
What is a Gratitude Intervention?
When people have the tendency to be influenced by their previous experiences with an individual or group.
What is the Halo Effect?
A cognitive bias where people who have already put a lot of time, effort or money into a project or activity, and therefore cannot quit even though they do not enjoy it anymore.
What is Sunk Cost Fallacy?
The frequent experiences of emotions that makes someone's life either pleasant or unpleasant.
What is emotional well-being?
An element of happiness where people use their strengths to serve others.
What is the Meaningful Life?
Going to help someone else in your community, like helping an elderly neighbour in their vegetable garden.
What is a Community Intervention?
When people tend to explain other people's behaviour in terms of their personality, while dismissing explanations based on their unique situation.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
A cognitive bias where people unfairly favour the group they belong to over others, whether those groups are based on something as insignificant as their class or as meaningful as their religion.
What is the In-Group Bias?
When people are good at making predictions about their future, but they are very bad at predicting how they will feel in the future.
What is Affective Forecasting?
When people are so absorbed in an activity that nothing else seems to matter, the experience is so pleasurable that they will continue to do it without effort.
What is the State of Flow?
Focusing completely on and maximising every aspect of an experience being enjoyed, like having a dance to your favourite music or eating your favourite food.
What is a Savouring Intervention?