PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Confirmation Bias, Belief Perseverance
8 Dec 2020
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When people encounter information consistent with their beliefs, they"re likely to take the evidence at face value accept it without question or challenge. When people encounter evidence that"s inconsistent with their beliefs often skeptical and scrutinize this new evidence, seeking flaws or ambiguities. Winning bets = wins, losing bets = near wins. Still have such strong faith no matter what. Belief perseverance a tendency to continue endorsing some assertion or claim, even when the clearly available evidence completely undermines that claim. Ex. study where participants were asked to read a series of suicide notes. Task figure out which notes were authentic, and which were fake. Given bogus feedback about how well they were doing. Nothing to do with their actual judgments. Later told that this feedback was bogus. Asked to assess their own social sensitivity and their success to differentiate the notes. Received above average feedback scored their social sensitivity and success as above average.
