Cognitive bias behavior

Psychological bias will be affected by various factors, including subjective factors like characters, emotion and experiences, and external environment factors like physical environment, information expression method and the behavioral manifestations of the persons around. These factors will lead the people to all kinds of cognitive bias. In particular, in case of unforeseeable or... 

Among the problems to which these leaders are blind are the very unpredictability of their own behavior and the resultant erosion in trust between leaders and followers. These developments are detectable with the Organizational Culture Diagnostic Instrument (see chapter 3) they show up as adverse changes in the OCDI dimensions of procedural justice (team members see the leaders behavior as unfair and untrustworthy), perceived organizational support (of team members by their leaders), and upward communication (by team members to their leaders about unsafe acts). The hazards and costs of cognitive bias thus often run deep in both the administrative and clinical chains of command in the healthcare organization. 

To understand how cognitive bias can work below the level of your awareness and affect your leadership behavior and your influence on others and the culture, consider the following case from a manufacturing plant. Focus on the plant manager s cognitive bias and resulting behavior. Next, look for the effects of his behavior on his direct reports. Finally, look for the biases active in his team. Notice that none of these people were aware of the role the biases were playing in their behavior ... 

Belief formation properties may also represent erroneous behavior, e.g. related to cognitive biases such as the ATC expectation bias, which is related to the well known confirmation bias [12], For example, EPS states that, if an agent receives an instruction II, while it has a strong expectation to receive a similar, but slightly different instruction 12, it will believe that it actually did receive 12. This property can be used to model the fact that the Hercules pilot interpreted his permission for lining up as permission for taking off. 

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