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%SELF PERCEPTION EVALUATION JUDGMENT REJECT GUILT 2 840125
Bias is a systematic tendency to perceive in
dishonest ways, in ways which lack ultimate integrity.
The biased person for some reason wants to perceive
reality in ways which do violence to the nature of
reality, thus undermining the reliability and helpfulness
of the relationship between the perceiver and the rest of
reality. Bias does violence to the integrity of
relationships, especially to the honesty of
relationships between the biased person and what the
biased person relates to in a biased way. Biased
perceptions lead to biased evaluations, judgments,
decisions, behavior, conclusions, etc. Because of some
perverting motivations the biased person is not free to
have integrity, to be whole, to relate honestly. By
understanding, predicting, and controlling conditions
which generate such perverting motivations we may
promote integrity; or undermine it. Our biases may lead
us to undermine integrity through our best efforts to do
what we believe is "best".
What we perceive to be "best" depends upon our
ultimate motivation. Our ultimate motivation may be:
personal pleasure, personal survival, personal high self
regard, personal equilibrium, personal vitality, personal
integrity. The focus may shift from personal to special
others who are exclusive extensions of self---with costs
being assessed against non-special persons and things.
The focus may broaden further to larger non-exclusive
considerations. The less exclusive our scope of interest
and concern, the less biased we may become, and the more
motivated to promote personal and communal integrity as
the ultimate worthy goal, value, ideal, end, etc.
Especially perverse motivations are engendered by
requirements of evaluations and judgments which lead to
rejection when perceptions do not conform to some
conventional standard. Such requirements of rejection
generate biases by generating motivations to perceive
dishonestly---to avoid the need to reject. The
affectively closer to us is that which we might have to
reject, the more the requirement undermines integrity.
Requirements which lead to self-rejection and guilt---
generate especially tragic biases and dishonesty which
undermine personal and communal integrity.
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