Effects of experiencing visual illusions on susceptibility to biases in opponent’s social judgments

It has been shown that people tend to view opponents as biased. Recent theoretical studies showed this tendency occurs due naïve realism. People be overconfident about their objectivity ? they believe see the world it really is (Naïve realism: Ross & Ward, 1995) hence, assume who have a different must biased (Pronin et al., 2004). This study examines effect of encountering clear demonstrations personal sensory perceptions are not necessarily accurate on perception opponents’ bias in social judgment through exposure visual illusions. A total 87 participants were grouped by whether or experienced Participants illusions rated having fewer biases judgments than did experience suggested person’s overconfidence own “I is” might one causes people’s negative opponents.