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Confirmation bias happens when you unconsciously focus on ideas that match what you already believe. Possible reasons include wishful thinking, anxiety, info overload, and the need to protect yourself ...

Confirmation bias, or the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories is running rampant in our society today, particularly fueling our political debates ...

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Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for data that can confirm our beliefs, as opposed to looking for data that might challenge those beliefs. The bias degrades our judgments when our initial ...

Researchers famously tried to replicate 100 prominent psyhology studies and reported last year in Science that only about 40 percent could be. This scandalous result has recently provoked a defensive ...

Confirmation bias is the logical fallacy where one only looks for evidence that confirms the beliefs that they want to hold. It usually goes hand in hand with evidence denial, where one does the ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select ...