If you get a low grade on a quiz, it's often easier to think that the teacher didn't explain things well and not that you didn't study as hard as you should have. And when a classmate aces that same ...

Due to considerations of length, I have split this article into two parts. This is part 1; part 2 is here. Social psychologists have developed names for a host of ...

Cognitive biases in social perception encompass systematic deviations in how individuals interpret, evaluate and remember information about others. These biases emerge from heuristics and mental ...

The self-serving bias is defined as people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that ...