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Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events, the stories that are reported, and how they are covered. The term generally implies a pervasive or widespread bias violating the standards of journalism , rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article ...
In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory. There are many types of memory bias, including:
Confirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed.
A 2006 meta-analysis found little support for a related bias, the actor–observer asymmetry, in which people attribute their own behavior more to the environment, but others' behavior to individual attributes. [9] The implications for the fundamental attribution error, the author explained, were mixed.
The Cognitive Bias Codex. A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. [1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.
Bias, one of the Epigoni and son of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven Against Thebes. [7] Bias, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by other women. [8] He was the father of two Trojan warriors, Laogonus and Dardanus. [9] In another account, Bias and his brothers, Dryops and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus. [10]
The horn effect, closely related to the halo effect, is a form of cognitive bias that causes one's perception of another to be unduly influenced by a single negative trait. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An example of the horn effect may be that an observer is more likely to assume a physically unattractive person is morally inferior to an attractive person ...
Bias, a book by journalist Bernard Goldberg; Bias, the genus of the black-and-white shrike-flycatcher; Bias (textile) of a woven fabric, the 45-degree diagonal line along which it is most stretchable; Bias frame, an image obtained from an opto-electronic image sensor, with no actual exposure time