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
In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias:23 seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias:24 seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This last one is confirmation bias - our tendency to interpret evidence as confirming our pre-existing beliefs instead of changing our minds.
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
The confirmation bias is the mother of all misconceptions. It is the tendency to interpret new information so that it becomes compatible with our existing theories, beliefs, and convictions.
Rolf Dobelli • The Art of Thinking Clearly
selectivity bias-the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion of other parts, no matter how obvious those parts may be.
David Disalvo • What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite: Updated and Revised
confirmation bias, which leads people to seek out and absorb only that information which supports an existing belief.
Rory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
This tendency for beliefs to get even stronger in the face of contradictory evidence, known as the backfire effect, is even more pronounced when the information presented is ambiguous or unclear. A Stanford study presented participants with strong feelings about the death penalty with a sheet that set forth evidence both for and against capital pun
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