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Unreflective copying bias
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In social network analysis and social psychology, the unreflective copying bias is a cognitive bias encountered in social situations when people learn by observing each other. It refers to the tendency to copy what others do as a result of successful analytic thinking, without engaging analytic thinking oneself. In an experiment, participants were seated in front of computers, and each was randomly assigned to a position on an artificial network. Each participant was asked to answer the three questions of the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), a short psychological test that measures a person's tendency to override an initial "gut" response that is incorrect, and to engage in further reflection (i.e. analytical thinking) to find a correct answer. In this particular experiment, thus making us only superficially smart. |
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