Myside bias, school performance, and the polarity of music preferences

Abstract

The study examined myside bias among Bulgarian students using a research paradigm devised by Stanovich and West (2007 Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (2007). Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability. Thinking & Reasoning, 13(3), 225–247. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546780600780796[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability. Thinking & Reasoning, 13(3), 225–247. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546780600780796; Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. [2008]. On the failure of cognitive ability to predict myside and one-sided thinking biases. Thinking & Reasoning, 14(2), 129–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546780701679764). Ten domains of personally relevant everyday experience were selected, including previously unexplored domains such as preferences for popular music styles. Replicating previous findings, the study found myside bias in all domains but one but failed to find an association between the magnitude of myside bias and school performance. Importantly, music styles that received more extreme liking ratings, regardless of direction, generated a larger myside bias. The study thus presents first exploratory evidence that the strength of prior opinion predicts the magnitude of myside bias not only within a particular topic but also across a set of related topics. This finding is in line with the dual-process account of myside bias as the result of Type 1 processing, further suggesting a potential mechanism in terms of the affect heuristic.

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