Belief-Bias

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Psychology

 

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Antoinette P

 

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September 21, 2013

 

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University

 

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The Implicit and the Explicit systems interacted together, where there was a conflict between belief-bias and logicality. Introduction Belief bias and confirmation bias are two related phenomena. While belief bias refers to making a biased evaluation of the evidence that is found, confirmation bias is a tendency to look for evidence that justifies a prior belief, avoiding conflicting evidence...
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While belief bias refers to making a biased evaluation of the evidence that is found, confirmation bias is a tendency to look for evidence that justifies a prior belief, avoiding conflicting evidence. There has been a long established connection between belief bias literature and syllogistic reasoning, where subjects are encouraged to engage in deductive reasoning, drawing conclusions that follow only from the premises given and apparently the subjects are not able to distinguish between judgments of validity and judgments of real world truthful value (Evans & Over, 1996)...
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