Read the original article. As post mortems of the 2016 presidential election began to roll in, fingers started pointing to what psychologists call the confirmation bias as one reason many of the ...

Many people love social media because their feeds are a safe space to share pictures of celebrities ... because thanks to confirmation bias and powerful proprietary algorithms, social media ...

Key Points Check your emotions -- and biases -- at the door before buying Newsmax stock. "Confirmation" and "recency" biases ...

Confirmation bias damages reputations ... And when reporters cherry-pick facts and distort images to serve political agendas, media outlets become dangerous weapons of mass manipulation.

Sadly, confirmation bias walls us off from information and experiences ... The mind becomes a house of mirrors that reinforces its existing images and ignores inputs pointing to other ...

Ray Nickerson receives funding from the U.S. Government (Office of Naval Research). Confirmation bias is usually described as a tendency to notice or search out information that confirms what one ...

The culprit? Confirmation bias — our brain's maddening tendency to seek out information that supports what we already believe. As product managers, we're hired to make decisions. We analyze ...

A well-known concept from psychology is the confirmation bias which describes the tendency for people to recognize, remember, and value new information that confirms what they already believe.