Usually means: Favoring information that confirms beliefs.
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  1. confirmation bias: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. confirmation bias: Wiktionary
  3. Confirmation bias: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Confirmation Bias: Management Dictionary
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  1. confirmation bias: The Skeptic's Dictionary

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  1. Confirmation Bias: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (confirmation bias)

noun:  (psychology) A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study; a psychological tendency to look for and accept information which supports one's values and worldview and reject that which conflicts with it.

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