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Confirmation Bias

Confirmation Bias is a cognitive bias characterized by the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while disproportionately dismissing or undervaluing evidence that contradicts them.

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Publications

574

Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises

Raymond S. Nickerson · Review of General Psychology · 1998 · 7.1K citations

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Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs

Charles S. Taber, Milton Lodge · American Journal of Political Science · 2006 · 4.3K citations

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Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing.

Joshua Klayman, Young-Won Ha · Psychological Review · 1987 · 2.1K citations

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Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading.

Martie G. Haselton, David M. Buss · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2000 · 1.1K citations

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First Impressions Matter: A Model of Confirmatory Bias

Matthew Rabin, John L. Schrag · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1999 · 1K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. SK
    Silvia Knobloch‐Westerwick

    The Ohio State University, United States

    12 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. AW
    Axel Westerwick

    The Ohio State University, United States

    7 publications · 545 citations

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  3. AB
    Ayşe Bener

    Boğaziçi University, Türkiye

    7 publications · 191 citations

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  4. EJ
    Eva Jonas

    University of Salzburg, Austria

    6 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. DF
    Dieter Frey

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

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Institutions

713

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    56 publications

    5.2K citations

  2. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    15 h-index

    39 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. Maastricht University

    Maastricht, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    25 publications

    653 citations

  4. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    689 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    674 citations

  6. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    772 citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    726 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 17 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    12 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 10 publications · 858 citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    8 publications · 374 citations

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  5. Applied Cognitive Psychology

    ACP · 8 publications · 217 citations

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