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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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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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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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.
Del Vicario M +4 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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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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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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Charge loss experiments in surface channel CCD's explained by the McWhorter interface states model [PDF]
, 1985 On the basis of the McWhorter interface states model the CCD charge loss is derived as a function of bias charge, signal charge and channel width. As opposed to existing models, the charge loss is now attributed to interface states in the entire gate ...
Penning De Vries, R.G.M., Wallinga, H.
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Confirmation bias and misconceptions: Pupillometric evidence for a confirmation bias in misconceptions feedback [PDF]
Biological Psychology, 2019 It has long been supposed that the confirmation bias plays a role in the prevalence and maintenance of misconceptions. However, this has been supported more by argument than by empirical evidence. In the present paper, we show how different types of belief-feedback evoke physiological responses consistent with the presence of a confirmation bias ...
Willem W.A. Sleegers +2 more
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