Which bias is also known as implicit social cognition?

• A. Availability bias
• B. Cultural bias
• C. Selection bias
• D. Confirmation bias

Answer: (B)

Implicit social cognition refers to attitudes and stereotypes about social groups that operate without conscious awareness, shaped by culture, socialization, and exposure to media. This automatic, unguarded processing aligns with cultural bias, which is the tendency to interpret and judge other cultures through the lens of one’s own. The other biases don’t capture this automatic, culturally informed aspect: availability bias is about what comes to mind quickly, selection bias concerns how samples are chosen, and confirmation bias is about favoring information that confirms preconceptions. So the bias described by implicit social cognition is cultural bias.