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Confirmation Bias Exists in the Face of False Information
2026-05-11
Abstract excerpt
Confirmation bias impacts judgments and decisions across a range of domains including finance, policy and science. Here we examine whether explicitly labelling information as true or false disrupts a core underlying computational mechanism that can generate this pervasive bias - asymmetric learning. Human participants (Study 1: N=47; Study 2: N=57) completed a 2 alternative forced choice (2AFC) task previously use...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8732e39b-ff1f-5aab-8efe-8193c7f9cae0
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.05.07.723487