Basic Psychosocial and Biological Contributors to Confirmation Bias
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.315How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- cognitive biases, uncertainty, valence, memory, mechanism
- Abstract
Like every natural phenomenon in the world, psychological phenomena take on mechanisms that give rise to them. Without exception, confirmation bias emerges from mechanisms that increase the chances for a person to assert information complacently once a certain threshold is met. The literature on confirmation bias (CB) points to several social, cognitive, and emotional factors in facilitating CB, and more recent work illustrates the neural correlates to some of these factors. However, what is missing in the science on CB are investigations into more “basic” factors that may lead to CB and constitute the more basic “ingredients” that support and evoke the human mind. The author argues that at least three fundamental factors are uncertainty, valence, and working memory. With these factors in mind, the author summarizes behavioral and neurobiological correlates of CB, mechanisms associated with these behavioral and brain manifestations of CB, and gaps in the literature where a focus on studying uncertainty, valence, and working memory may prove instructive. The author further argues these factors may explain current findings in CB and proposes a model wherein these factors interact mechanistically to give rise to CB.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jiaqi Chen PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/21 TI - Basic Psychosocial and Biological Contributors to Confirmation Bias BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1109 EP - 1119 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.315 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.315 ID - Chen2021 ER -