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Established personal bias heavily influences how human beings act. People's decisions and opinions seem to be at least partially based upon a consistent and unconscious tendency to notice and assign significance to observations that confirm existing beliefs whilst filtering out and rationalizing observations that do not confirm pre-existing beliefs. This is a well-established concept within the scientific literature known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias confirmation bias].<ref>Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises | | Established personal bias heavily influences how human beings act. People's decisions and opinions seem to be at least partially based upon a consistent and unconscious tendency to notice and assign significance to observations that confirm existing beliefs whilst filtering out and rationalizing observations that do not confirm pre-existing beliefs. This is a well-established concept within the scientific literature known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias confirmation bias].<ref name="Nickerson1998">{{cite journal|last1=Nickerson|first1=Raymond S.|title=Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises.|journal=Review of General Psychology|volume=2|issue=2|year=1998|pages=175–220|issn=1089-2680|doi=10.1037/1089-2680.2.2.175}}</ref><ref name="JonasSchulz-Hardt2001">{{cite journal|last1=Jonas|first1=Eva|last2=Schulz-Hardt|first2=Stefan|last3=Frey|first3=Dieter|last4=Thelen|first4=Norman|title=Confirmation bias in sequential information search after preliminary decisions: An expansion of dissonance theoretical research on selective exposure to information.|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|volume=80|issue=4|year=2001|pages=557–571|issn=1939-1315|doi=10.1037/0022-3514.80.4.557}}</ref><ref name="MynattDoherty2018">{{cite journal|last1=Mynatt|first1=Clifford R.|last2=Doherty|first2=Michael E.|last3=Tweney|first3=Ryan D.|title=Confirmation Bias in a Simulated Research Environment: An Experimental Study of Scientific Inference|journal=Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology|volume=29|issue=1|year=2018|pages=85–95|issn=0033-555X|doi=10.1080/00335557743000053}}</ref><ref name="Klayman1995">{{cite journal|last1=Klayman|first1=Joshua|title=Varieties of Confirmation Bias|volume=32|year=1995|pages=385–418|issn=00797421|doi=10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60315-1}}</ref> Confirmation bias affects everyone's thoughts to a varying degree, but its effects are significantly stronger in the case of emotionally charged issues and deeply entrenched cultural beliefs. | ||
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