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confirmation bias

Noun

Meaning

confirmation bias (usually uncountable, plural confirmation biases)

(psychology) A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Religion is heavily laden with the kind of confirmation bias that makes people see their own faiths as true and all others as false. In other words, religion is replete with features to help people fool themselves. Jerry Coyne

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