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.

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. It is a type of selective thinking.

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]

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down. . . forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation... and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions. Francis Bacon

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

'Psychologist Hillel Einhorn and Robin Hogarth (1978) have studied the general issue of why people persist in beliefs that are invalid, that is, why they succumb to the illusion of validity. Einhorn and Hogarth suggest that people do so because they are prone to search for confirming evidence, not disconfirming evidence.' Shefrin (2000)

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

'Confirmation bias is the technical name for people's desire to find information that agrees with their existing view.' Montier (2002)

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

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

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