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.
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