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decision making
You are worse at predicting your own behavior.
The introspection illusion is the tendency to trust one's own introspections as a reliable source of information while failing to recognize that cognitive biases operate unconsciously.
It specifically explains why people view themselves as more objective than others, rather than why they ignore situational factors (which is the fundamental attribution error).
Your explanation for why you acted is often just a story.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Pronin, 2007, The Introspection Illusion
- What the check found
- The definition provided describes the fundamental attribution error. The introspection illusion specifically refers to the belief that one's own thoughts are an accurate window into one's lack of bias.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.