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confirmation bias
You filter out information that challenges your beliefs.
A 1979 study found that when shown opposing studies on capital punishment, people rated evidence confirming their view as credible and dismissed contradictory evidence as flawed.
Confirmation bias creates a protective barrier around your existing worldview. You do not treat all evidence equally; you work harder to discredit data that proves you wrong.
You are not looking for the truth, you are looking for validation.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Lord, Ross, and Lepper, 1979, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- What the check found
- The citation and the core finding are correctly attributed to the 1979 JPSP study by Lord, Ross, and Lepper.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.