- For the philosophy of perception, see naïve realism.
In
social psychology,
naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us
objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed,
irrational, or
biased. Naïve realism provides a theoretical basis for several other
cognitive biases, which are systematic errors in thinking and decision-making. These include the
false consensus effect,
actor-observer bias,
bias blind spot, and
fundamental attribution error, among others.