Confirmation bias in information search, interpretation, and memory recall: evidence from reasoning about four controversial topics

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Thinking and Reasoning 28 (1):1-28 (2022)
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Confirmation bias is often used as an umbrella term for many related phenomena. Information searches, evidence interpretation, and memory recall are the three main components of the thinking proces...

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