confirmation bias, n.Definitions

Confirmation bias is a type of selective thinking.

Confirmation bias is the tendency of people to find information that agrees with their existing view.

Confirmation bias is the idea that we persist in invalid believes because people are wired to search for confirming evidence, not disconfirming evidence.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.

Confirmation bias is the acceptance of all data as fresh support on the one hand, and the forceful rejection of any contrary evidence with violent and injurious prejudice on the other. [Bacon himself does not use the term]

Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias whereby one tends to notice and look for information that confirms one's existing beliefs, whilst ignoring anything that contradicts those beliefs.