What Is the Confirmation Bias

question 128

Multiple Choice

What is the confirmation bias?

• A) people's tendency to agree with others whose attitudes differ from theirs
• B) people's tendency to behave according to others' expectations
• C) people's tendency to reinterpret earlier information to make it more consistent with subsequent information
• D) people's tendency to interpret,seek,and create information in ways that support existing beliefs

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