0 the way a particular person understands events, facts, and other people, which is based on their own particular set of beliefs and experiences and may not be reasonable or accurate:
Social scientists are interested in how cognitive bias and stereotyping affects workplace discrimination.
The rationality of decisions is affected by the individual's cognitive biases.
Stereotypes of women as less competent and less committed to work linger in many managers' subconscious, something called "cognitive bias".
Humans have evolved a cognitive bias towards drawing inferences from small numbers.
One manifestation of cognitive bias is the tendency to look harder for, and give greater weight to, evidence that supports pre-existing points of view.
We investigated whether children exposed to family aggression differed in their social cognitive biases: were they more likely to see the world as a hostile place?
