confirmation bias (Q431498)

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tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses
  • confirmatory bias
  • myside bias
  • verification bias
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confirmation bias
tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses
  • confirmatory bias
  • myside bias
  • verification bias

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Innocence at Stake: The Need for Continued Vigilance to Prevent Wrongful Convictions in Canada / Chapter 2 - Understanding Tunnel Vision / I. Introduction / Legal scholars typically include “confirmation bias” as an element of tunnel vision. (English)
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Resilience to Online Disinformation: A Framework for Cross-National Comparative Research (English)
Resilience to Online Disinformation: A Framework for Cross-National Comparative Research / Literature Review / Understanding the Diffusion and Consumption of Online Disinformation / Several authors have argued that the diffusion and consumption of disinformation is driven by mechanisms such as “confirmation bias” and “motivated reasoning,” leading people to believe information that confirms their own worldviews (Nickerson 1998; Robison and Mullinix 2015; Shin et al. 2017). (English)

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