Dig deep Quote by Thomas Gilovich

We're all human and bound to have personal preferences. The key is to make sure that we can still see what's really going on,…

— Jessica Tarlov

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have…

— Daniel Gilbert

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

“We have to judge all evidence with the same amount of scrutiny. We want truth, not confirmation of whatever our preference is.”

— Lewis N. Roe

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

— Valerie Tarico

“A second way in which our motives influence the kind of evidence we entertain involves whose opinions, expert or otherwise, we consult. We can…

— Thomas Gilovich

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“When we charge headlong into big decisions, it may be because we don’t want to know the answers that will emerge from doing due…

— Brené Brown

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

— Cindy Alvarez

“The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have “too much information” is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts we like…

— Nate Silver

“people’s “declared preferences” — what they say they want — are far different from their “revealed preferences” — what they actually do.”

— Nir Eyal