| Confirmation Bias | PSY/285 Why can’t we all just get along | | 8/1/2014 |

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Confirmation bias also known as the (myside bias) is a propensity that’s meant for individuals to honor their figures to prove an assumption. This means that a person will put together different types of facts they want to remember and use it in a way that fits their idea.
Confirmation bias can pressure ideas of past experiences, but also our future guess of what is going to happen. Our understandings and guesses are known as confirmation bias and can cause their own proving.. Overconfidence which is the master of confirmation bias can be started with the shortage of knowing what the subject or chore is. A person may ask a over confident person how well they are at a chore knowing that the over confident person had no clue about the task , the overconfident person would reply with a confidence “ stating I would be great for that’. The overconfidence could possibly be raised because of the persons lack of knowledge of what the task consist of. Many times our memories will lead us to distance into a untrue mindset of confidence, we remember times when we were almost correct.
Our mind often remembers what is wanted instead of actual true data, often hearing what is selected to be heard. Many times we convince ourselves there are causes for our smaller conscious decisions. A wonder that fortifies confirmation bias happening known as intellectual deceit .Such examples of (I knew that was going to happen)( Ross & Newby-Clark, 1998)will reach out to present knowledge and our future behaviors. We confirm we have made past mistakes, but we still remain calm and positive for our future expectations, in our task. I believe this habit helps us not only to start enough smart lies to become overconfident and starts a bias, making us remember past experiences and thoughts. This shines enough light that will start to form our own bias.
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http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Confirmation_bias.html