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  2. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another proposal is that people show confirmation bias because they are pragmatically ...

  3. Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia

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    The Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm (DRM) consists of a participant listening to an experimenter read lists of thematically related words (e.g. table, couch, lamp, desk); then after some period of time the experimenter will ask if a word was presented in the list. Participants often report that related but non-presented words (e.g. chair ...

  4. Analysis of competing hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    It is widely believed to help overcome cognitive biases, though there is a lack of strong empirical evidence to support this belief. [2] Since the ACH requires the analyst to construct a matrix, the evidence and hypotheses can be backtracked. This allows the decisionmaker or other analysts to see the sequence of rules and data that led to the ...

  5. Dual-coding theory - Wikipedia

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    Supporting evidence shows that memory for some verbal information is enhanced if a relevant visual is also presented or if the learner can imagine a visual image to go with the verbal information. Likewise, visual information can often be enhanced when paired with relevant verbal information, whether real-world or imagined. [ 6 ]

  6. Social judgment theory - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, Social judgment theory (SJT) is a self-persuasion theory proposing that an individual's perception and evaluation of an idea is by comparing it with current attitudes. According to this theory, an individual weighs every new idea, comparing it with the individual's present point of view to determine where it should be ...

  7. Social support - Wikipedia

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    Informational support is the provision of advice, guidance, suggestions, or useful information to someone. [9] [17] This type of information has the potential to help others problem-solve. [12] [18] Companionship support is the type of support that gives someone a sense of social belonging (and is also called belonging). [9]

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  9. Hidden profile - Wikipedia

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    A hidden profile is a paradigm that occurs in the process of group decision making.It is found in a situation when part of some information is shared among group members (i.e. all members possess this information prior to discussion), whereas other pieces of information are unshared (i.e. information known to only one member prior to discussion). [1]