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Confirmation bias – myside bias
2016The confirmation bias – “the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a hypothesis in hand” (Nickerson, 1998, p. 175) – has been described by contemporary researchers as “ubiquitous” (Nickerson, 1998), “perhaps the best known and most widely accepted notion of inferential error to come out of
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2020
Chapter five provides details of the meta-analyses into confirmation bias. It will show that the analytical conditions of diagnostic weighting of initial information, consistency of information, hypothesis testing instructions and type of information likely have an impact on confirmation bias.
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Chapter five provides details of the meta-analyses into confirmation bias. It will show that the analytical conditions of diagnostic weighting of initial information, consistency of information, hypothesis testing instructions and type of information likely have an impact on confirmation bias.
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Confirmation Bias in Housing Unit Listing
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2011Field listing of housing units is an expensive and time-consuming stage of the survey process, and its error properties are not well understood. This paper uses an experimental repeated listing design to demonstrate the presence of confirmation bias in dependent listing. We find evidence that when provided with an initial listing to update in the field,
Eckman, Stephanie, Kreuter, Frauke
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Abstract This chapter introduces the concept of confirmation bias by tracing its origins to early human evolution and highlighting the interplay between reason and emotion in shaping decision-making. It explains that human reasoning coexists with primitive emotional responses, a duality that persists due to the lingering influence of ...
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2020
11–16 November 2019 EIPF Exhibition > Dubai Design Week Confirmation Bias Selected Participant Emirates International Poster Festival (EIPF) The works have been exhibited during Design week 2019. All the works will be part of the EIPF/NADWA permanent Poster collection.
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11–16 November 2019 EIPF Exhibition > Dubai Design Week Confirmation Bias Selected Participant Emirates International Poster Festival (EIPF) The works have been exhibited during Design week 2019. All the works will be part of the EIPF/NADWA permanent Poster collection.
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Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013Abstract One difficulty in persuasion is overcoming the confirmation bias, where people selectively seek evidence that is consistent with their prior beliefs and expectations. This biased search for information allows people to analyze new information in an efficient, but shallow way.
Ivan Hernandez, Jesse Lee Preston
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Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006Confirmation bias is the tendency to bolster a hypothesis by seeking consistent evidence while disregarding inconsistent evidence. In criminal investigations, preference for hypothesis-consistent information could contribute to false convictions by leading investigators to disregard evidence that challenges their theory of a case.
Barbara O'Brien, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
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Varieties of Confirmation Bias
1995Publisher Summary This chapter reviews research concerning a variety of confirmation biases and discusses what they have in common and where they differ. The overall picture is one of heterogeneous, complex, and inconsistent phenomena, from which it is nevertheless possible to discern a general direction, namely a general tendency for people to ...
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