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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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Out of sight, out of mind: Matching bias underlies confirmatory visual search [PDF]
, 2016 Confirmation bias has recently been reported in visual search, where observers who were given a perceptual rule to test (e.g. “Is the p on a red circle?”) search stimuli that could confirm the rule stimuli preferentially (Rajsic, Wilson, & Pratt, Journal
Pratt, Jay +2 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2020 The overload of news in today’s digital information environment can lead to biased media exposure on the individual level—for example, based on the confirmation of preexisting attitudes, attractiveness of negative news, and familiarity with sources.
Toni G.L.A. van der Meer +2 more
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Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 2021 Simple random sampling resolutions of the raven paradox relevantly diverge from scientific practice. We develop a stratified random sampling model, yielding a better fit and apparently rehabilitating simple random sampling as a legitimate idealization.
Ward, Barry
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On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2022 Background: Despite the adverse impact diagnostic errors can have, clinical interviewing and decision-making in psychiatric practice have received relatively little empirical attention. When diagnosing patients, clinicians tend to fall back on a specific
Paul T. van der Heijden +3 more
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Journal of Management Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's)When making investment decisions, retail investors tend to rely on shortcuts in thinking to process the information and data they get. This creates illogical thinking based on emotions or momentary judgments that can result in less-than-optimal ...
Mardiana R +4 more
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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance [PDF]
, 2017 Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause ...
Cruz, Manuel Padilla
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In previous research on the evaluation of food images, we found that appetitive food images were rated higher following a positive prediction than following a negative prediction, and vice versa for aversive food images.
Kajornvut Ounjai +5 more
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Cross-Loss Pseudo Labeling for Semi-Supervised Segmentation
IEEE Access, 2023 Training semantic segmentation models requires pixel-level annotations, leading to a significant labeling cost in dataset creation. To alleviate this issue, recent research has focused on semi-supervised learning, which utilizes only a small amount of ...
Seungyeol Lee, Taeho Kim, Jae-Pil Heo
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Social media e pandemia. Il Movimento inconsapevole
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2023 The massive diffusion of social media has produced disintermediation and it has changed the way in which users inform themselves and participate in public debate.
Simona Gozzo +2 more
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