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Selective exposure is a theory within the practice of psychology, often used in media and communication research, that historically refers to individuals' tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information.
Attentional bias, the tendency of perception to be affected by recurring thoughts. [24] Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. The frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence (a form of selection bias). [25]
Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition ). [ 5 ]
It is also possible that people can only focus on one thought at a time, so find it difficult to test alternative hypotheses in parallel. [3]: 198–199 Another heuristic is the positive test strategy identified by Klayman and Ha, in which people test a hypothesis by examining cases where they expect a property or event to occur. This heuristic ...
Selective perception may refer to any number of cognitive biases in psychology related to the way expectations affect perception.Human judgment and decision making is distorted by an array of cognitive, perceptual and motivational biases, and people tend not to recognise their own bias, though they tend to easily recognise (and even overestimate) the operation of bias in human judgment by ...
The only thing that changed was your perception of me in the beginning. And for that reason, I made a very intentional decision to always speak about it. I’m not trying to hide.
“Something went wrong, and I believe the sincerity of their remarks.” In the wake of the Alaska Airlines disaster a wave of whistleblowers have added fuel to the investigations into Boeing .
At first, the illusory truth effect was believed to occur only when individuals are highly uncertain about a given statement. [1] Psychologists also assumed that "outlandish" headlines wouldn't produce this effect however, recent research shows the illusory truth effect is indeed at play with false news. [5]