Psychology · Judgement & Decision Making

Confirmation Bias

A topic within Judgement & Decision Making, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper1979

Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence

Charles G. Lord, Lee Ross & Mark R. Lepper

People who read the same mixed evidence on a contested topic each found it more convincing of their own prior view, so exposure to identical evidence drove opposing partisans further apart rather than together.

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Paper1998

Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises

Raymond S. Nickerson

Surveys confirmation bias across memory, reasoning and hypothesis testing and argues it is not one narrow effect but a family of related tendencies to notice, seek and weight evidence that fits a prior belief more than evidence against it.

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Reading on Confirmation Bias

Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence

Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises

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