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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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Humans actively sample evidence to support prior beliefs
eLife, 2022 No one likes to be wrong. Previous research has shown that participants may underweight information incompatible with previous choices, a phenomenon called confirmation bias.
Paula Kaanders +4 more
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Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias in Politics
Games, 2020 The confirmation bias, unlike other decision biases, has been shown both empirically and in theory to be enhanced with deliberation. This suggests that limited attention, reduced deliberation, or limited available cognitive resources may moderate this ...
David L. Dickinson
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Modeling Confirmation Bias and Peer Pressure in Opinion Dynamics
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 Confirmation bias and peer pressure are regarded as the main psychology origins of personal opinion adjustment. Each show substantial impacts on the formation of collective decisions.
Longzhao Liu +12 more
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Biased Information Search in Homogeneous Groups: Confidence as a Moderator for the Effect of Anticipated Task Requirements [PDF]
, 2008 When searching for information, groups that are homogeneous regarding their members’ prediscussion decision preferences show a strong bias for information that supports rather than conflicts with the prevailing opinion (confirmation bias).
Andreas Mojzisch +10 more
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Combined Effects of Knowledge About Others' Opinions and Anticipation of Group Discussion on Confirmatory Information Search [PDF]
, 2008 There is conclusive evidence that information search processes are typically biased in favor of the information seeker’s own opinion (confirmation bias).
Andreas Mojzisch +5 more
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Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science [PDF]
, 2021 In the philosophy of science, it is a common proposal that values are illegitimate in science and should be counteracted whenever they drive inquiry to the confirmation of predetermined conclusions.
Peters, Uwe
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Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 We survey 492 recent studies in the fields of ecology, evolution and behavior (EEB) to evaluate potential for observer bias and the need for blind experimentation in each study.
Melissa R Kardish +7 more
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A Formal Model for Polarization under Confirmation Bias in Social Networks [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2023 We describe a model for polarization in multi-agent systems based on Esteban and Ray's standard family of polarization measures from economics. Agents evolve by updating their beliefs (opinions) based on an underlying influence graph, as in the standard ...
Mário S. Alvim +4 more
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