Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability
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Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence
Myside bias occurs when people evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior opinions and attitudes. Research across a wide variety of myside bias paradigms has revealed a somewhat surprising finding regarding individual differences. The magnitude of the myside bias shows very little relation to intelligence. Avoiding myside bias is thus one...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thinking & Reasoning
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1354-6783,1464-0708
DOI: 10.1080/13546780600780796