Psychology

You don't just believe what confirms your views — you go looking for it

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, favour and recall information that supports what you already believe, while giving less weight to evidence against it. Raymond Nickerson's 1998 review traced it through scientific reasoning, jury verdicts and everyday arguments. It's one of the most consistently replicated biases in psychology.

Raymond S. Nickerson, Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises — Review of General Psychology, 1998

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