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cognition
You ignore information that contradicts your existing world view.
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information in a way that aligns with your pre-existing beliefs.
When you encounter new information, you selectively weigh evidence that supports your current position while scrutinizing or ignoring data that challenges it. This creates a self-reinforcing loop where your original views become hardened regardless of the quality of new evidence. You are looking for confirmation, not the truth.
Your brain is a filter, not a mirror.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Nickerson, 1998, Review of General Psychology
- What the check found
- Raymond Nickerson's 1998 paper is the seminal review of the concept, and the provided definition accurately reflects the scope he establishes in the text.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.