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The confirmation bias is the tendency to focus on information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignore information that is inconsistent with our expectations. For example, if you think that your professor is not very nice, you notice all of the instances of rude behavior exhibited by the professor while ignoring the countless pleasant interactions he is involved in on a daily basis. Have you ever fallen prey to the confirmation bias, either as the source or target of such bias?

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Propositions and Pragmatics

Kevin P Weinfurt¹

¹a Duke University School of Medicine.

The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB

|September 29, 2018

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