Cognitive Biases Among Yarmouk University Students in Reation to Gender and Academic Achievement.

Abstract

This study aimed at discovering cognitive biases among a sample of four hundred ninety-six male and female undergraduate students at Yarmouk University. To achieve the study aims, an adapted version of the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale "DCOBS" was used. The results of the study revealed that Yarmouk University students have a moderate level of cognitive biases. The results also revealed that attention to threats biases were the most dominant, followed by jumping to conclusions biases, and safety behaviors biases were the least dominant ones. It was also found that males had more external attribution biases than females, and that low achievement students had more cognitive biases than high achievement students