{"id":332,"date":"2023-10-15T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2023-10-16T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:05:08","slug":"confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of possible biases in judgment. &nbsp;One of these biases is the confirmation bias. &nbsp;&nbsp;The confirmation bias is an important concept in psychology. &nbsp;&nbsp;What is the confirmation bias? &nbsp;&nbsp;Below is a definition of the confirmation bias.<br><br><strong>Confirmation Bias Definition:<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to selectively search for and consider information that confirms one&#8217;s beliefs.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong>Confirmation Bias Examples:<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>There are a number of possible examples of the confirmation bias. &nbsp;Below are a few examples.<br><br>1. &nbsp;&nbsp;A student who is going to write a research paper may<br>primarily search for information that would confirm his or her beliefs. &nbsp;The student may fail to search for or fully consider information that is inconsistent with his or her beliefs.<br><br>2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A reporter who is writing an article on an important issue may only interview experts that support her or his views on the issue.<br><br>3. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An employer who believes that a job applicant is highly intelligent may pay attention to only information that is consistent with the belief that the job applicant is highly intelligent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell There are a number of possible biases in judgment. &nbsp;One of these biases is the confirmation bias. &nbsp;&nbsp;The confirmation bias is an important concept in psychology. &nbsp;&nbsp;What is the confirmation bias? &nbsp;&nbsp;Below is a definition of the confirmation bias. Confirmation Bias Definition:The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to selectively search for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/confirmation-bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confirmation Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}