Publisher Summary This chapter reviews research concerning a variety of confirmation biases
and discusses what they have in common and where they differ. The overall picture is one …

… Collectively, such tendencies have been referred to in the literature as a confirmation
bias in … Nevertheless, the concept of a confirmation bias in reasoning continues to enjoy a …

… , the bases of the benchmarks—such as his proffered definition and his “Cantabrigian
omissions”—are, I think, not only contestable but display a “tendency toward confirmation bias—to …

… the possible role of confirmation bias in forensic interviews. Confirmation bias may come
into … have paid little explicit attention to confirmation bias, instead focusing on decreasing the …

… It is argued that beach user behavior is affected by confirmation bias, a cognitive shortcut
by which a person selectively attends to evidence confirming their preexisting beliefs and …

… More knowledge about the nature of confirmation bias … confirmation bias in various software
engineering contexts (Section II). Then, we report two empirical studies on confirmation bias …

… In the best light, preferring only those trees that confirm morphology-based hypotheses of
phylogeny reflects a form of confirmation bias that stems from a naïve misunderstanding of how …

… described the phenomena of confirmation bias nearly 2500 years … Today confirmation bias
is ubiquitous and may appear in … , I will review six examples of confirmation bias (Table 1) that …

… However, this confirmation bias is far from trivial, and it could … A confirmation bias lies in
the ability to analyze experimental … Demonstrating our hypothesis that confirmation bias may …

Abundant research has documented the negative effects of confirmatory bias in a broad
range of managerial decision-making contexts. However, insufficient research has been …