Author Question: Different cognitive biases can threaten a negotiator's effective problem solving and creativity. Of ... (Read 125 times)

kfurse · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Different cognitive biases can threaten a negotiator's effective problem solving and creativity. Of
those threats, which of the following scenarios best illustrates the illusory correlation bias?

A) A person believes that morally good people are likely to win lotteries, and bad people
are the victims of crimes.
B) A person learns that 60 of a country's population is uneducated and that 70 of the
crimes in that country are violent, and concludes that uneducated people are responsible
for the violent crime rates.
C) A student takes an aptitude test and scores poorly. Later that student learns that the test
was mis-scored, but the student still feels as if she failed.
D) A person hears that women living in San Francisco have a higher rate of breast cancer and
concludes that living in San Francisco causes breast cancer.

Question 2

Bottom-up change is rarely met with resistance from organizational leaders.

a. true
b. false