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People show confirmation bias even in trivial things. It has been long known that people tend to interpret new information in a way that supports their pre-existing beliefs, a phenomenon known as confirmation bias.…

The biases at work here are “confirmation bias” where decisions are made to affirm the ideas that the decision-makers already have an “affinity bias” where decision makers assume that those who make suggestions similar to their own preconceptions are somehow…

“You can think of that as a bias, people mentally move the slider over a certain amount before they see the evidence.”. Each case included a description of the crime and varying amounts of evidence. Six hundred participants completed the study online.…

Hindsight bias might just be playing tricks on their memory.…

Cognition. , reveal that. knowledge of a person’s personality can influence the perception of a face’s identity and bias it toward unrelated identities.…

Overall, the results suggest that bias amplification occurs because people (selectively) attribute higher informational value to social signals that reinforce their pre-existing motivation to believe.…

“The bias varied randomly from one short block of trials to the next,” said the paper’s co-author.…

Therefore, this study suggests that those with political confidence need to be more mindful of how they are evaluating information and their own confirmation biases when considering opposing views.…

Psychologists call this “confirmation bias.”. Other factors, such as the proportion of their contacts that send them the information (basically, peer pressure) or the level of trust in the source, can influence how individuals update their beliefs.…

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