Confirmation bias and electoral accountability [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2017 This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. When voters have this bias and when only the politician's actions are observable before the election, it ...
Lockwood, Ben
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Confirmation bias in visual search. [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2015 In a series of experiments, we investigated the ubiquity of confirmation bias in cognition by measuring whether visual selection is prioritized for information that would confirm a proposition about a visual display.
Pratt, Jay +2 more
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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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Journalism and Media, 2023 Concerns about online news consumption have proliferated, with some evidence suggesting a heightened impact of the confirmation bias and social cues online. This paper argues that mobile media may further shape selective exposure to political content. We
Morgan Quinn Ross +3 more
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Determinant factors of partisans’ confirmation bias in social media
Humanitas: Indonesian Psychological Journal, 2021 Partisans are more likely to be motivated by a desire to justify their political opinion which is called as confirmation bias. This research aimed to investigate the determinant factors of confirmation bias among college students who actively obtained ...
Rahkman Ardi, Adismara Putri Pradiri
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