Confirmation bias

Definition: The tendency to seek out, interpret, favor and recall information in a way that supports one’s prior values, beliefs, expectations, or hypothesis.

Related terms: Confirmatory bias, Congeniality bias, Myside bias

Reference: Bishop (2020); Nickerson (1998); Spencer and Heneghan (2018); Wason (1960)

Drafted and Reviewed by: Barnabas Szaszi; Jenny Terry, Mahmoud Elsherif, Tamara Kalandadze, Sam Parsons, Charlotte R. Pennington

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