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Confirmation Bias in Psychology
Psychologist David Frum explains some of our favorite cognitive biases. Confirmation bias is what happens when you look for confirmation that your anxiety is just or reasonable because there's a social aspect to it at all times. The least sexy term in psychology is the makes sense stopping rule, he says.
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