A confirmation bias in perceptual decision-making due to hierarchical approximate inference. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 Making good decisions requires updating beliefs according to new evidence. This is a dynamical process that is prone to biases: in some cases, beliefs become entrenched and resistant to new evidence (leading to primacy effects), while in other cases ...
Richard D Lange +4 more
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Confirmation bias in studies of nestmate recognition: a cautionary note for research into the behaviour of animals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to interpret information in a way that confirms their expectations. A long recognized phenomenon in human psychology, confirmation bias can distort the results of a study and thus reduce its reliability.
Ellen van Wilgenburg, Mark A Elgar
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Modeling confirmation bias and polarization. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 AbstractOnline users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral phenomena. Furthermore, the wide availability of content on the web fosters the aggregation of likeminded people where debates tend to enforce group polarization.
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Can personalized medicine mitigate confirmation bias in mental health? [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 Giampaolo Perna, Charles B. Nemeroff
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Not All Strokes Are Strokes - An Example of Diagnostic Confirmation Bias [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2019 A 72-year-old woman presented with a complex partial seizure and right hemiparesis, after a four-week history of cognitive decline, apraxia and speech disturbance.
Melanie Dani +2 more
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Confirmation bias in human reinforcement learning: Evidence from counterfactual feedback processing. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2017 Previous studies suggest that factual learning, that is, learning from obtained outcomes, is biased, such that participants preferentially take into account positive, as compared to negative, prediction errors.
Stefano Palminteri +3 more
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Confirmation bias in digital communication: The tendency of consumers to favor information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2023 Certain members of society, who are characterized by overconfidence, a relatively low level of knowledge, and a high level of misinformation or incomplete information, tend to selectively choose information from real life or the digital environment, in ...
Baltezarević Radoslav +2 more
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Confirmation bias and quantitative approach in psychiatry: should ideological competing interests be declared? [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryMartin Blay +4 more
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HERD INSTINCT BIAS, EMOTIONAL BIASES, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING BIASES IN INVESTMENT DECISIONS
Jurnal Manajemen dan Wirausaha, 2022 The evolution of information during the COVID-19 pandemic has altered how investors invest. Investments can be made easily on a variety of digital platforms that provide easy access to information in investment decisions.
Rohmad Fuad Armansyah
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Confirmation bias: A barrier to community policing
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2021 This is a very challenging time for police–community relations, one characterized by a mutual lack of trust between police and citizens. But trust is an important tenet of effective community policing.
Michael D. Schlosser +3 more
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