In this study, I present a theoretical social learning model to investigate how confirmation bias affects opinions when agents exchange information over network. Hence, besides exchanging with friends, observe public sequence of potentially ambiguous signals and interpret it according rule that includes bias. First, study shows regardless level ambiguity both for people or networked society, on...

In task-oriented spoken dialog systems (SDS), the system often requests explicit confirmation of userprovided task-relevant concepts. The user utterance following a confirmation question (the postconfirmation utterance) is important to successful dialog outcomes. It may be a simple confirmation or rejection (e.g. yes, no, right, correct), or a correction or a topic change containing new concept...

PURPOSE The objective of this prospective, randomized, controlled study was to evaluate whether confirmation calls made one or two working days before scheduled appointments reduce the percentage of broken appointments in a children's hospital dental clinic. METHODS Patients were randomly assigned to three groups: 1) confirmation call made one working day before appointment, 2) confirmation c...

Confirmation bias is an innate and pervasive human tendency to preferentially attempt to validate beliefs instead of invalidating them. However the design community, which is increasingly concerned with the cognition of designers, has largely overlooked this phenomenon. This paper discusses the relevance of confirmation bias with respect to its potential to influence designers and design resear...

This paper synthesizes confirmation by instances and confirmation by successful predictions, and thereby the Hempelian and the hypotheticodeductive traditions in confirmation theory. Our merger of these two approaches solves classical problems such as the tacking paradoxes and the raven paradox and is subsequently extended to the piecemeal confirmation of entire theories. We compare our proposa...