On a partly cloudy afternoon in early March, Mr. Whitney, Mr. Hayes, and three other Bullitt Foundation employees gathered in a glass-walled conference room in their sixth floor office to offer some admittedly biased first impressions.
Using videotaped simulating cases, Wigton and McGaghie [ 31] previously demonstrated that the appearance of obesity alone biased students' impressions of the patient and the patient's ability to comply with lifestyle recommendations.
Topics include: heuristics and biases, impression formation and candidate assessment, forecasting and risk assessment, judgments of fact and misinformation, moral judgment, decision making under risk and uncertainty, compensatory and non-compensatory decision rules, and spatial, heuristic and expressive voting models.
Studies of parents' behaviour after a child's potentially traumatic experience via retrospective questionnaires or interviews are challenged by vulnerability to biases related to self-report, such as social desirability, recall bias, impression management, lack of self-knowledge and mental health status.
Our perceptions of the importance of cues and how local managers assign meanings to them could be biased because our impressions are based on the non-random sample of OR managers with whom we have worked.
In this case, reporting on assessment systems may be biased to avoid negative impressions of the resident, staff member or organization.
In two separate but conceptually parallel experiments, this reasoning was applied to two domains--biased assimilation of new evidence on social issues and biased hypothesis testing of personality impressions.
One group was told that our impressions are often biased by our stereotypes and they had to try to avoid preconceptions.
Alexander gives the impression of being biased toward Shackleton's experiences and jealous of the entry onto the field of another polar account.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal fired a Dutch lawyer attending the trial of Slobodan Milosevic as a "friend of the court," saying he had created an impression of being biased.
