the.com/confirmation bias
you already decided; your brain is just gathering evidence for the defense.
means the tendency to seek, notice, and remember information that supports what you already believe, while ignoring what doesn't.
from named and studied by psychologist peter wason in the 1960s, whose experiments showed people testing hypotheses by looking for confirming evidence instead of trying to disprove themselves.
wason's testmost people never tried to prove their own rule wrong
news habitspartisans rate identical facts as more credible from allies
jury studiesearly impressions predict which evidence jurors later recall
immune to iqsmarter people are just better at rationalizing, not less biased