"Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice.
In studies of political stock markets, investors made more profit when they resisted bias.
Today, the FBI chief said, "those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice.
Note to self: Need to continue to work on resisting cognitive biases.
Thus, Barnes (1997) argues that self-deceivers "can, with effort, in some circumstances, resist their biases" (83) and "can be criticized for failing to take steps to prevent themselves from being biased; they can be criticized for lacking courage in situations where having courage is neither superhumanly difficult nor costly" (175).
One assumes that behavioural economists, like everyone else, are probably biased towards resisting challenges to their dominant paradigm.
Missing from Zimbardo's account is any reference to the individual factors that interact with such situational ones that make one person conform to socially sanctioned group violence, and make another person -- in the very same situation -- resist the conformity bias and stand up for what he or she thinks is right.
Missing from Zimbardo's account is any reference to the individual factors that interact with such situational ones that make one person conform to socially sanctioned group violence, and make another person resist the conformity bias and stand up for what he or she thinks is right.
Hamilton sometimes seemed to be on trial for insulting two contrasting sets of assumptions about how a modern Manhattan family should look: she'd failed to gain full access to high-bourgeois comforts; and, by resisting Gunn, she was showing bias against new family configurations, and the gay culture that had helped to create them.
Instead, females have only really been studied in terms of whether or not they induce post-copulatory sexual selection on males (i.e. by mating multiply) and not whether they play a more active role in biasing paternity or resisting male coercion strategies.
