Bettina J. Casad
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (2007) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Confirmation bias, people’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional, and it results in a person ignoring information that is inconsistent with their…
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