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“What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see…

— Craig Detweiler

“You do realize that your brain is literally hardwired to generate error signals when it sees other human-shaped objects stating a different opinion from…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

“When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences,…

— Ilchi Lee

“[W]e have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore,…

— Wadsworth Publishing

“If our mental models are mere approximations of reality, then, the conclusions we draw cannot help but be prone to error. A few words…

— Ed Catmull

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without…

— David DiSalvo

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

— Kristin Cashore

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for…

— Leonard Mlodinow