DOES SELF-EVALUATION ADD TO BIAS?

Kunga Dhoedon

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The majority of persons rate themselves as superior to others, and they do so across a wide array of positive attributes. Positive discrepancies of this type correlate positively with self-esteem and positive affect. However, it is argued that judgments of others are not an appropriate baseline for assessing bias in self-evaluation. Society inherent the sense of belongingness within individual which tends to interact with each other. It is very critical to question how people interact with each other? In the first place, the social action that Weiber mentions is instrumentally rational action, where the end and the means are all rationally taken into account and weighted. 

The rational consideration of alternatives implies that it leads to the struggle for power and the consequences of that leads to the independence decision. But this kind of social interaction is not always the case in the social action, value-rational action, effectual orientation, and traditional action. Yet all of these actions are the elements that take place during the individual interaction. Each of these is taken into account independently of its prospect to success. Individuals reflect the emotion differently given the condition that everything thing is the same near him/them. For example, When Issac newton critically evaluates: Why the apple falls downward? 

He started analyzing the reason. His intelligence reflects in a different way. He builds up his assumption and the theory starts developing in a way that now in today's era it is carried out as a universal fact. Yet during the newton discoveries, many scientists don’t believe in what newton is proving. They critically evaluated the problem on his bias!

Each individual has a different belief. The understanding of the environment is perceived by the belief it inherits, learns, and experiences. Therefore, struggle for the power of an individual lead to the independent decision. “Power is the probability that one actor within the social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance”. In social situations typically defines as relation or domination. 

“Domination is the probability that the command will be obeyed” It is power and legitimacy. The people who hold power try to legitimate what they do! On the other hand, the individuals legitimize themselves by motivating and making it by their own interest rather than acting out of power. Individuals try to internalize and believe that it is good for certain activities they are doing it.

 

Not only that, we have the tendencies to call the blind spot bias in practical psychology. Let say “ If I ask you how biased you are?” you would probably say that you are less biased than the average person and you are more likely to take judgment on statistic and the fact that is known as blind-spot bias. It is because of the fact that you think you are less biased than everyone else. So self-evaluation is multiplied motivated. Two persons exhibiting the same level of self-exaggeration may do so for very different reasons. The relation between self-evaluation bias and positive or negative outcomes appear to depend on the motivational factors that underlie it.

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