PSYC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Trie, Incest
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News- like watching fox will be biased: bad news bias. Second-hand sources giving us only what they think we should hear. We might be more attentive to it because it threatening to us. The way it is framed can present the way it is processed: 80% fat vs 20% lean framed differently and you will more likely get the 20% lean, would you rather have. Surgery or radiation for patients: negative or positive frame, 82% recommended surgery- pos, 56% recommended surgery- neg frame order effects. What is the better opening statement in a trial: to convict mr. jones. Tendency for people to more readily, realiably and vigorously seek out evidence that would support ones preconceptions or hypothesis regardless of weather the information is trie. Can be detrimental- because if you look for confirming evidence you will most likely find it.
