Whenever the members of a large group of people appear much more similar to each other than the members of your own group, you're probably not thinking clearly. (Example: men, women, whites, asians, gays, conservatives, liberals, psychologists, tech workers, wealthy, poor...)
Yes. I meant to suggest to look for one’s own outgroup homogeneity bias as a way to diagnose errors in one’s perception of social reality.
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Its one of the most important cognitive biases, along with representive & availability heuristics, i.e. the tendency to assume that our knowledge of the small slice of reality available to us is representative of reality as a whole. These biases are the source of much ignorance!
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How might we best remember we are affected by these biases in order to avoid these errors in thinking? Knowledge is the first step, and in psychology we frequently consider overgeneralising from biased samples, but how can we help more people to realise this?
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