Quote by William Landay

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

— Cindy Alvarez

“[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

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

— Jon Ronson

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

— Valerie Tarico

“Psychologists call this natural tendency to be selective in both our memory and our perception confirmation bias. People with strong convictions often take confirmation…

— Robert Carroll

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

“tendency to seek confirming evidence and ignore disconfirming evidence as “confirmation bias,” and it's as human as sex, sleep, and barbeque.”

— David DiSalvo

“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

“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

“How often – I continue reflecting – is it that we see what we want to see, rather than what is really before our…

— John Dolan

“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”

— Criss Jami