information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views...

Belief bias is the tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion rather than how strongly they justify that...

Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. In science and engineering, a bias is...

judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise, or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are...

because of incomplete data. Survivorship bias is a form of selection bias that can lead to overly optimistic beliefs because multiple failures are overlooked...

Research suggests that cognitive biases can make individuals more inclined to endorsing pseudoscientific beliefs by requiring less evidence for claims...

heuristic System 1 take over, which results in belief bias. Matching bias is a non-logical heuristic. The matching bias is described as a tendency to use lexical...

Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones; a memory bias. Recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent...

psychology, the false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to "see their own behavioral choices and...

A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case. A subjective attitude is a mental state of having some...