The Effect of Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigative Decision Making
Confirmation bias occurs when a person believes in or searches for evidence to support his or her favored theory while ignoring or excusing disconfirmatory evidence and is disinclined to change his or her belief once he or she arrives at a conclusion. The purpose of this quantitative study was to ex...
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ScholarWorks
2016
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/hodgkinson/22 http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=hodgkinson |