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Another proposal is that people show confirmation bias because they are pragmatically assessing the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way. Flawed decisions due to confirmation bias have been found in a wide range of political, organizational, financial and scientific contexts.
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) is a 2007 non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.It deals with cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators (and victims) of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior.
Here are a few ways of being wrong on Wikipedia: The obvious ways - misunderstanding policy, misreading a source, confusing something, letting your personal beliefs get the better of your judgment, typos and conflicts, which may lead to edit wars. Bad motives. Whether your edits are good or bad are you doing it for the right reason?
In this cognitive distortion, being wrong is unthinkable. This distortion is characterized by actively trying to prove one's actions or thoughts to be correct, and sometimes prioritizing self-interest over the feelings of another person.
Dozens of influential media figures were asked what they got wrong in 2024 for a retrospective report, and several of the respondents admitted to eating crow over President Biden's mental acuity ...
Adaptive bias — basing decisions on limited information and biasing them based on the costs of being wrong; Attribute substitution — making a complex, difficult judgment by unconsciously replacing it with an easier judgment [59] Attribution theory. Salience; Naïve realism; Cognitive dissonance, and related: Impression management; Self ...
In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain statement is wrong can paradoxically cause it to feel right. [4] Researchers observed the illusory truth effect's impact even on participants who knew the correct answer to begin with but were persuaded to believe ...
A different type of argument proceeds from the nature of moral theories. According to various authors, it is a requirement for good moral theories that they should be action-guiding by being able to recommend what should be done in any situation. [21] But this is not possible when ethical dilemmas are involved.