Practice
Fairness and First Impressions
Read each short scene, choose the best match, and then check the feedback. This set focuses on social judgment, group thinking, and the ways fairness can get distorted.
Question 1
A manager sees one missed deadline and decides the employee must be irresponsible without checking workload, tool failures, or shifting priorities.
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One behavior is being explained through character while context is ignored. That is Fundamental Attribution Error.
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After someone hits a rough patch, people quickly assume they must have caused it or deserved it rather than asking what unfair conditions were involved.
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The outcome is being treated like a moral verdict. That is Just-World Hypothesis.
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A student forgives rude behavior from their own club as stress but treats the same behavior from another club as proof of bad character.
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The insider group is getting extra grace and trust. That is In-Group Bias.
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A person talks about their own team as full of distinct personalities but describes another team as if everyone there is basically the same.
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The outside group is being flattened into sameness. That is Outgroup Homogeneity Bias.
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A team lead assumes nearly everyone in the company probably shares their opinion because it feels normal inside their own department.
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Local familiarity is being mistaken for broad agreement. That is False Consensus Effect.
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A designer personally loves fast-moving interfaces and assumes users must want the same pace, even though user research says otherwise.
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One person's own preferences are being projected onto others. That is Projection Bias.
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A polished speaker makes the room assume the proposal itself must also be thoughtful and well tested.
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One visible strength is coloring unrelated judgments. That is Halo Effect.
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A room shifts toward a plan mainly because the most powerful leader in it sounded certain, even though the evidence stayed thin.
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Status and power are doing too much work in the judgment. That is Authority Bias.
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