Cognitive dissonance Quote by Craig Detweiler

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

— Cindy Alvarez

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

“Dissonance theory also exploded the self-flattering idea that we humans, being Homo sapiens, process information logically. On the contrary: If the new information is…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

“Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.”

— Rachel Hilary Brown

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

— Valerie Tarico

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness…

— Maajid Nawaz

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what…

— William Landay

“[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

“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of…

— Jean Tirole

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible,…

— Michael Shermer

“it’s surprising that arguments don’t happen more often, given that the filters of our automatic system—including inattentional blindness and confirmation bias—make the reality we…

— Caroline Webb

For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places…

— Barack Obama