Confirmation Bias
It is the tendency to seek out information that affirms your beliefs and ignore information that opposes your beliefs.
How to use this: “It’s been so hard to try and change his mind about this project. I think confirmation bias is really impacting his decision-making.”
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Confirmation bias
People don't like to rethink their beliefs once they are formed.
We would rather ignore information that would challenge our ideas than engage with threatening new information. This is called "confirmation bias".
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias refers to our tendency to interpret new information in a way that supports our existing theories and beliefs, rather than objectively considering all the facts.
- We often filter out or ignore any information that contradicts our curr...
Confirmation Bias
Is the tendency to focus on new information that confirms pre-existing beliefs and trivialize anything that might challenge those beliefs.
How to control it: Seek out information that goes against your pre-existing beliefs.
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