Invulnerability Bias
Invulnerability Bias is a proposed composite bias in which a person believes they are immune to risks, conditioning, abuse, or negative outcomes that affect others.
| Invulnerability Bias | |
|---|---|
| Field | Cognitive psychology; risk perception; self-assessment |
| Author | Andrew Lehti |
| Status | Proposed composite bias |
| Related framework | Cognitive Impasse |
| Related concepts | Optimism Bias, Overconfidence, Utopian Forecasting, Dunning-Kruger Effect |
Invulnerability Bias describes the belief that one is not subject to risks or influences that affect other people. It may appear as recklessness, overconfidence, or contempt toward those who suffered similar conditions.
Within Cognitive Impasse, Invulnerability Bias protects self-image. A person may deny that upbringing, education, manipulation, trauma, propaganda, or social pressure affected them because admitting influence would threaten identity.
The bias can also appear in risk-taking when the person believes consequences apply to others but not to themselves.
See also
- Optimism Bias
- Utopian Forecasting
- Overconfidence
- Cognitive Impasse
References
| Cognitive Biases | |
|---|---|
| Biases | Confirmation Bias · Status Quo Bias · Authority Bias · Negativity Bias · Optimism Bias · Self-Serving Bias · Overconfidence Bias · Publication Bias · Source Attribution Bias |
| Effects | Dunning-Kruger Effect · Backfire Effect · Bandwagon Effect · Social Proof · Pluralistic Ignorance · Learned Helplessness · Normalization of Deviance |
| Composite biases | Academic Distorting Bias · Always Has Been Bias · Ancestral Default · Anticipatory Compliance · Autonormia · Bleak Retrospection · Brevity Bias · Cognitive Dissonance Avoidance · Dismissal Bias · Dystopian Forecasting · Enforced Sameness · Galileo Dismissal · Galileo Gambit · Habitual Inertia · Imposing Inferiority · Infamication · Invulnerability Bias · Microblindness · Normative Reflex · Programmed Emotion Bias · Projected Inferiority · Projected Introspection · Projection and Imposition of Inferiority Bias · Proper Channels Bias · Sympathy Bias · Utopian Forecasting |
| Framework terms | Cognitive Impasse · Cognitive Bias Reinforcement · Cognitive Inertia · Imposition and Projection · Manifested Responses · Selective-Mindedness · Semmelweis Reflex · Standardized Obedience |