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“Motivated reasoning” is a cognitive bias(偏见). Not all the errors it leads to arecostly: praising the performance of one's supported football team despite contradictory evidence does little harm. But when biases are broadly shared—within financial world or political parties—danger arises. Mot...
Resistance to debunking is complicated further by an array of cognitive biases, including confirmation bias and familiarity bias, among others. In addition, many people’s identities are entangled with deeply engrained belief systems, which, when working together, skew much more toward emotion than em...
1 the transfiguration of the commonplace the protean inventor nikola tesla once made a prediction that must have seemed as fanciful to his victorian contemporaries as the science fiction of the day. he wrote: “when wireless is fully applied, the earth will be converted into a huge brain, ...
Cognitive biasLatent print analysisHuman factorsEmerging research documents the ways in which task-irrelevant contextual information may influence the opinions and decisions that forensic analysts reach regarding evidence (e.g., Dror and Cole, 2010; National Academy of Sciences, 2009; President's ...
This might have introduced selection bias. Second, although limited functional neuroimaging studies using SPECT or PECT/CT have adequately explored the association of cerebral perfusion, metabolic abnormalities, and cognitive decline, most have reported variable results. Further attentional assessment at ...
Excerpt: "These obstacles [industry influence, cognitive bias in decision-making, and time constraints] and the notion that modern antidepressants are not as safe as once thought offer an opportunity to revisit the process of informed consent. A dynamic concept of informed consent is proposed with...
Of course not. But this week we have seen people falling over themselves to justify exactly those actions AFTER they happened. In my opinion, it’s because we have a cognitive bias towards justifying actions that have already happened,EVEN IFwe would not be able to justify them before they ...
Results of pairwise comparisons between language forms within each noun bias level. Comparison Estimatea Std. Error 95 % confidence interval z-value p-valueb Noun bias: male GMc –WP 0.33 0.75 −1.59 – 2.25 0.44 n. s. GM – CI −1.28 0.75 −3.19 – 0.63 −1.73 n. s....
People communicate using speech, gestures, and, less frequently, touches. An example of tactile communication is represented by handshake. Customs surrounding handshake vary in different cultures. In Western societies is mostly used when meeting, parting