Ana Rivera
Week 11 assignment
My research question is:
Can self-serving bias be controlled? What
are some techniques to deal with such personality trait?
1.
Scholarly Journal Article Evaluation
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Citation:
Friedrich, J. (1996). On Seeing Oneself as Less
Self-Serving than Others: The Ultimate Self-Serving Bias? Teaching of Psychology., 23(2), 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top2302_9
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Descriptive annotation:
o The article focuses in two different experiments where
participants are measured their self-serving bias in judgment is a tendency to
see themselves better than others. The author’s findings were that the
experiments represent only two of many replications with different variations
of the procedure.
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Evaluative annotation:
o Currency: The article is not written with a reasonable
time span for my topic. However, it does help to get the idea of how
self-serving bias can be measured with different variations as the author
mentions.
o Relevance: This article addresses to my question by
mentioning all the variations that self-serving bias can be measured and
perceived.
o Authority/credibility: James Friedrich is a psychology
professor from the Willamette University. More information about him is not
available.
o Authority/viewpoint: The article itself seems to be
credible; it provides data from the study. Friedrich has some other
collaborations in more articles in the same area of study (Psychology).
However, this might not be a good source to use, since I am not able to find
out more about the author.
o Accuracy: I believe that the information in the
article is trustful. It gives credit to the experiment participants. Other
sources and data results are provided as well.
o Purpose: This article describes the understanding on
how self-serving bias can be perceived by the own individual. The audience for
this kind of article is for psychology faculty and students, persons who wish
to have better understanding on specific topic.
2.
Book or eBook Evaluation
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Citation:
Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases,
and the Role of Expert Agents: An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration.
(2005). Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research. URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w11189
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Descriptive annotation:
o
Theme: In this
book a study was conducted a study of strategic interaction between
participants. The model constructs an agent that may influence outcomes independent
of the facts, but the agent may also improve the outcomes of the process by moderating
any self-serving biases or over-confidence that may have led to impasse in the
first instance.
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The intended audience of this work is for
economists, agents of arbitration, students and teachers in the field of
finances.
· Evaluative annotation:
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Age- This eBook was published on March
2005. There haven’t been new editions on it.
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Sources- References are cited, it seems
that they are appropriate and authoritative.
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Author- James Poterba is President of the
National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Mitsui Professor of
Economics at M.I.T.
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Publisher- The National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER) is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated
to conduct economic research and to disseminating research findings among
academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Relevance- This eBook makes a connection
with my research question thus by explaining how self-serving bias personality in
distinct roles has been moderating and how they have evolved.
3.
Website
Evaluation
· Citation:
Self-Serving Bias. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/self-serving-bias
· Descriptive annotation:
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Theme: Ethics Unwrapped presents the latest
research and top experts to emphasize the practical application of behavioral
ethics. Their focus is on fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral
economics to reveal the biases and pressures that cause people to make the
ethical and unethical decisions that they do in everyday life.
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Audience: This educational program is used by colleges,
universities, businesses and organizations as well as ethics learners.
· Evaluation:
o
The domain is edu, which means it is from
an educational institution.
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Currency: There is not a date last
updated. However, the copyright is 2019 and the information is sufficiently
current to cover my research topic.
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Relevance: This website provides an
extensive collection of information related to my research question. In the
search that I’m working explains what self-serving bias is, accompanied of a
video as well.
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Authority: the page was made by The
University of Texas at Austin. Authors are Cara Biasucci, she develops and
produces Ethics Unwrapped for the McCombs School of Business. She is on the
Governing Board of the National Ethics Project and part of the Center for
Leadership and Ethics at McCombs. Minette Drumwrig, Deni Elliott, Mary C.
Gentile, Lamar Pierce, and Robert Prentice are part of the team of Ethics
Unwrapped, each of them is a professional in certain field of study.
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Accuracy: the information seems to be
reliable; facts are appropriated and relatable. The page has several links.
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Purpose: this site was created with the
purpose to educate and the intended audience are scholars and professors.
