This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
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This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
confirmation bias, which leads people to seek out and absorb only that information which supports an existing belief.
from Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland
Whereas statistical bias skews a sample so that it less closely resembles a larger population, cognitive biases skew our beliefs so that they less accurately represent the facts, and they skew our decision-making so that it less reliably achieves our goals.
from Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
In-group bias (or us-versus-them thinking) is a concrete example. We tend to treat those we deem as outgroups as if they are incidental, in our way. We lack compassion for those we place in outgroups, losing the ability to care about them. We do this not just towards human beings but also towards other species.
from What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis by Christine Wamsler
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- People seek out and pay attention to information and cues that confirm their beliefs. They don’t seek out—in fact, they ignore or even discount—information that doesn’t support what they already believe.
from 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
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- There is a growing risk that you will only be presented with information that someone else thinks is what you want to see, read or hear. Accentuating your biases and prejudices. Increasing groupthink. Narrowing your frame of reference.
from On firehoses and filters: Part 1 by JP Rangaswami
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