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Confirmation Bias Emerges from an Approximation to Bayesian Reasoning

2022-03-29

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<p>Confirmation bias is defined as searching for and assimilating information in a way that favours existing beliefs. We show that confirmation bias emerges as a natural consequence of boundedly rational belief updating by presenting the BIASR model (Bayesian updating with an Independence Approximation and Source Reliability). In this model, an individual's beliefs about a hypothesis and the source reliability for...

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Literature Corpus work: e0440a94-c89a-5901-a2d9-35307a2ca69e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jzct8

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