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''Cognitive bias''.
''Cognitive bias''.


Affinity bias is an unconscious bias leading people to favour other people from groups for whom they have developed more positive associations, including groups to which they belong themselves.
Affinity bias is an unconscious social bias.


It may be expressed in a wide range of contexts including recruiting, work allocation, performance management and informal networks.
Affinity bias leads people to favour other people from groups for whom they have developed more positive associations, including groups to which they belong themselves.
 
 
Affinity bias may be expressed in a wide range of contexts including recruiting, work allocation, performance management and informal networks.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bandwagon bias]]
* [[Behavioural economics]]
* [[Behavioural economics]]
* [[Choice supporting bias]]
* [[Cognitive bias]]
* [[Confirmation bias]]
* [[Diversity]]
* [[Diversity]]
* [[Dunning-Kruger effect]]
* [[Dunning-Kruger effect]]
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* [[Impostor syndrome]]
* [[Impostor syndrome]]
* [[Objectivity]]
* [[Objectivity]]
* [[Optimism bias]]
* [[Reactance bias]]
* [[Self-investment bias]]
* [[Social bias]]
* [[Source bias]]


[[Category:Influencing]]
[[Category:Influencing]]
[[Category:Working_effectively_with_others]]
[[Category:Working_effectively_with_others]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
[[Category:Ethics]]

Revision as of 10:04, 1 January 2019

Cognitive bias.

Affinity bias is an unconscious social bias.

Affinity bias leads people to favour other people from groups for whom they have developed more positive associations, including groups to which they belong themselves.


Affinity bias may be expressed in a wide range of contexts including recruiting, work allocation, performance management and informal networks.


See also