Confirmation Bias/Confirmatory Bias

Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias whereby one tends to notice and look for information that confirms one's existing beliefs, whilst ignoring anything that contradicts those beliefs. It is a type of selective thinking.

"Confirmation bias is the technical name for people's desire to find information that agrees with their existing view."
Montier (2002)

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