. Because there is often systematic thought involved in generating the confirmation bias, deliberation tends to promote this …The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …

our deliberation hypotheses, the confirmation bias results were most precisely estimated for those having thought …The confirmation bias, unlike other decision biases, has been shown both empirically and in theory to be enhanced with … deliberation. This suggests that limited attention, reduced deliberation, or limited available cognitive resources may moderate …

the method does not reveal substantial reporting bias in measures of health disparities. …

bias in measures of health disparities is not large …

While the existence of the in-group bias is a well-researched phenomenon in Economics, the established findings are of …

become controversial in the wake of recent demonstrations showing that this type of regression is prone to bias in small … samples. Bias may even remain when units are sampled from a larger population of infnite size. This paper uses a combination … of simulated and actual examples to show that, as a practical matter, bias tends to be negligible when the sample size is …

This research verifies the existence of the aversion to uncertainty bias in individual financial decisions. It also … evaluates the effects of gender and knowledge in this bias. We considered a sample of 80 undergraduate management students from … Universidade Católica de Brasília. The results supported the existence of the uncertainty bias amongst individuals facing financial …