Learned Helplessness
Following repeated failures, there is the conviction of having no power over our own destiny neither no responsibilities towards possible successes or failures.
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It’s a family of self-preserving biases: to maintain a positive perception of ourselves, we show a series of behaviors and thinking strategies. Some of these biases have the opposite effect: they lead the subject to think negatively of themselves. These biases are often found in medical literature, linked with anxiety and depressive syndromes.
Following repeated failures, there is the conviction of having no power over our own destiny neither no responsibilities towards possible successes or failures.
The subjects of a research tend to answer in a socially acceptable way rather than answering honestly.
We overestimate our ability to act in situations that are not under our control.
People, especially those with high self-esteem, tend to consider their own positive traits as more sincere and important.
It’s a bias that is observed in young patients, that tend to overestimate their health condition and to think that they do not need drugs or devices. In general, it’s thinking that the situation is better than what it really is.
We think the messages coming from mass media (especially if persuasive) have a greater impact on others than ourselves.
We think that our perception of reality is exactly true as it is, without any distortion.
In the moment that we take a decision, we excessively base our choice on our conviction.
We excessively base our decision on our own personal opinion and hardly take into account other point of views.
We think that our ideas have more success and are more understandable than what they really are.
Tendency to underestimate the negative consequences of a decision.
We tend to overestimate our abilities and to be overconfident.
We tend to be more confident than what we should be towards machines and automated processes.
We tend to consider ideas that are coming from outside our group or organization as less valid.
We overestimate our abilities in fields in which we have only a superficial knowledge.
We think that an emotion that we will experience in the future will last longer and be stronger.
Once we learn something, we tend to consider it as basic knowledge and already known by everybody else.
We tend to imagine ourselves to be the centre of attention more than we really are.
Illusion that leads us to consider ourselves to be superior and more skilled than others Illusion that leads us to consider ourselves to be superior and more skilled than others Illusion that leads us to consider ourselves to be superior and more skilled.
The tendency to think that our characteristics are unique, while, in actuality, they are more common than we think.
We tend to share, online and offline, positive aspects of our daily life above all, while we omit the negative ones or the ones that would put us in a bad light.
We tend to be more confident about our evaluations, even when they are wrong.
We tend to overestimate our ability to make accurate and reliable predictions.
We tend to overestimate the sexual attraction that others have towards us.
The tendency to prefer action rather than inaction, regardless of its usefulness.
We don’t realize the fact that we’re affected by our own biases.
We tend to be competitive and experience negative emotions towards those we perceive as more skilled than us in some fields.
We tend to overestimate our ability to resist temptations and instincts.
Tendency to perceive our own performances as below average or inadequate.
We overestimate the duration and intensity of our emotional reactions.
We tend to think that we know others better than how well they actually know us.
We believe that we have a justification for misbehaving because of the times we had a correct behaviour, instead.
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