Bias in the Relative Assessment of Happiness,Political Stance, Height and Weight
Cognitive biases have been a recognised feature of research into human behaviour since at least Kahneman and Tversky’s ground-breaking work of the 1970s. We find that such biases extend into the realm of perceptions about relative happiness and we compare and contrast this phenomenon across three other characteristics : height, weight and political stance. Our findings indicate a powerful and consistent bias in the way individuals perceive their place in the population distribution. In particular, those at extremes perceive a population distribution that is incorrectly and heavily biased towards themselves,irrespective of whether the characteristic is objective and easily observed or not.
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2010
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Authors: | Proto, Eugenio ; Sgroi, Daniel |
Institutions: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick |
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