Influencing the Confirmation Bias on a Matchmaker Task through the Manipulation of the Feeling of Rightness

The confirmation bias occurs when an individual ignores potentially disconfirming evidence and gives greater attention to apparent confirming evidence. The confirmation bias is theorized to result from rapid, automatic and unconscious processing. Such processing generates decisions that are consider...

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Main Author: Ledet, Patrick Clinton
Other Authors: Rocha, Oliver J
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2013
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04092013-172440/