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 …

Creating and testing hypotheses represents a crucial feature not only of progress in science,
but also in our daily lives in which we set up assumptions about reality and try to test them. …

… of the evolution of confirmation bias that challenges a key … In these situations, confirmation
bias is highly effective for us … is an adaptive property of confirmation bias. It can result in …

… Indeed, the existence of the confirmation bias might seem … “ever since I learnt about
confirmation bias I’ve started seeing … to prove the existence of the confirmation bias also be …

… Both polarization and homogeneity might be the result of the conjugate effect of confirmation
bias and social influence. Confirmation bias is the tendency to acquire or process new …

… in this paper investigated the confirmation bias in a complex analysis … confirmation bias,
called analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH), was tested. Results showed a confirmation bias …

… This confirmation bias has significant impact on domains ranging from politics to science …
Here we report a mechanism underlying the confirmation bias. Specifically, we provide …

… , 1972) suggests the existence of a confirmation bias, at least on abstract problems. Using
a … Strong evidence for a confirmation bias involving failure to choose environments allowing …

… form of deviation from rationality: confirmation bias. It presents and discusses the … confirmation
bias in valuer behaviour. It concludes that the case for the presence of confirmation bias …

This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, “confirmation
bias”. Confirmation bias is the human tendency only to look for evidence that confirms what …