Bias quiz

This is the underlying tendency to notice, focus on, and give greater credence to evidence that fits with our existing beliefs.

• Halo effect

• Confirmation Bias

• Comparison Bias

• I like you Bias

We tend to give preferential treatment to people who share aspects of our identity or beliefs: “Like likes like."

• In-group favoritism

• Friend bias

• Halo effect

• blind bias

The tendency to provide preferential treatment toward one gender over another, or have prejudice against a certain gender

• Stereotype bias

• Gender discrimination

• Gender bias

• Confirmation bias

Relying too heavily on the first piece of information we learn or are given about a topic is considered

1. Evaluating two people (or choices, ideas, etc.) against each other instead of comparing them to an objective standard.

• Conformity bias

• Halo effect

• Similar to me bias

• Comparison bias

When leaders give preferential treatment to those who are physically closest to them

• Proximity bias

• Similar to me bias

• Close bias

• Friend bias

leads managers to rate people with similar interests, skills, and backgrounds more highly than people who are different from them

• Proximity bias

• Similar to me bias

• Favoritism bias

The fear of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype and of doing something that confirms it.

• Conformity bias

• Stereotype threat

• In-group favoritism

• Fear bias

This is the tendency for leaders to focus on the most recent time period instead of the total time period being evaluated

• Now or later bias

• Lately bias

• Recency bias

• Halo effect

Believing that people’s personality traits have more influence on their actions compared to the other factors over which they don’t have control.

• Conformity bias

• Fundamental attribution error

• Stereotype threat

• Trait bias