Notes on Bias Research

Some of these pages are "under construction", but they may be useful to anyone starting out researching these topics:

Optimistic Bias

Illusory Correlation

Illusion of Control

Beneffectance (self-serving attributions)

Is Bias Beneficial?

Superiority Bias

Bias Blind Spot

Stereotype Threat/Enhancement

Introspection Illusion

Daniel L. Schacter's Seven Sins of Memory research summarises the uncertainties and biases in human memory.

Logic and Induction

Some Key References on the Cox Proof of Bayesianism

The Cox Proof is a crucial basis of Bayesian inductive logic, yet among some philosophers I've talked to there is the impression that it has somehow been refuted. This short technical note uses some new references to justify taking the Cox Proof seriously.