Memory can actually make us prone to confirmation bias. "If we are remembering something from our past, we need to be cautious when we add new details to an old story—especially when it involves ...

Confirmation bias causes us to favour information ... forgetting the good. That’s memory bias. So instead of falling in love, Belle might have ended up dating some handsome but disappointing ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency for people to believe evidence that confirms their preexisting beliefs and discount information that counters those beliefs. Seeking to corroborate our beliefs ...

This occurs because the frequency illusion is a combination of selective attention and confirmation bias. We remember what we prime the mind to attend to. If we select a new concept, we’ll ...

Confirmation bias abounds: If you’re one of the ubiquitous confident Republicans, you see evidence to back up your theory. The same is true for both current strands of Democrats: the worriers ...

Uninterested, she went on with her chores. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information and patterns of information that validate our pre-existing world view and biases. We all engage ...