Othering Quiz

The quiz is intended as a creative way for you to identify and challenge thinking patterns that might make you more vulnerable to engaging in othering. You may want to try the quiz a number of times to consider carefully the subtle ways in which othering can creep into anyone's thinking.Please respond with a true or false answer to each question. Please consider each item in terms of how you are most inclined to think about your thinking. You will receive an immediate response to each question.Licensed by Dr. Sandra Collins under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Quiz Questions

1.
Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
2.
When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
3.
You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments, and experiences.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
4.
You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you dislike.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
5.
You tend to favour members of your in-group over out-group members.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
6.
You are more likely to assign blame to an individual for a particular outcome based on cultural group affiliation than actual performance.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
7.
Our perceptions of in-group and out-group members are established early in life and are unlikely to be altered by new information or context.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False
8.
Although there is now evidence that the human brain is wired for empathy through what are referred to as mirror neurons, you will still have a stronger activation of this natural empathic response towards people you perceive as part of your in-group.
- A.
  True
- B.
  False

Quiz Outcomes

1.
Challenging Othering
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This quiz reinforces the importance of stepping back to think about your thinking to ensure that you do not fall into othering as a default or unconscious positioning. You may want to review the quiz to reinforce your understanding of the phenomena presented: Confirmation bias, Backfire effect, Sunk cost fallacy, Behaviour-emotion effect, In group favouritism, Blame attribution, Blue eyes, brown eyes effect, and Wired for empathy. Search out more information on those phenomena that you are less familiar with or that you struggle to comprehend.