Recent research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin sheds light on the role of belief systems in ...

The roots of confirmation bias can be traced back to the way our brains are wired to process information. Humans are naturally inclined to seek consistency in their beliefs and attitudes ...

Where people overestimate the importance of information that is available to them. One example would be a person who argues that smoking is not unhealthy on the basis that his grandfather lived to ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select ...

Bias and cognitive bias have received significant attention from researchers and practitioners over the past half-century. Wikipedia’s List of Cognitive Biases provides an overwhelming array of ...

Here are three cognitive biases that play a role in guiding our belief in the occult. Confirmation bias is the tendency to focus on information that supports our existing beliefs while ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (JTA) As if to underscore what some Jews believe is a media bias against Israel when portraying violence in the Middle East, The New York Times and other major dailies this week ...