Confirmation Bias Explained: How Your Brain Lies to You | Cognitive Bias Series

Описание: Understanding Confirmation Bias: The Cognitive Bias That Shapes Your Reality

Confirmation bias is the human tendency to search for, interpret, and favor information that confirms our preexisting beliefs while rejecting contradictory evidence. In this video, we explore:

✓ What is confirmation bias?
✓ How confirmation bias affects decision-making
✓ Real-world examples of confirmation bias
✓ Why weaker beliefs suffer from stronger bias
✓ How to recognize confirmation bias in yourself
✓ Strategies to overcome confirmation bias
✓ The impact on worldviews, religion, finance, and relationships

Key Takeaways:
Confirmation bias is strongest with abstract, unfalsifiable beliefs
Ambiguous data gets interpreted to support existing views
Counter-evidence is dismissed or reframed
This bias leads to polarization and intellectual stagnation

Learn how cognitive psychology shapes human judgment and decision-making. This video is part of our behavioral economics and cognitive bias series.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Definition
2:15 - Mechanism
4:20 - Real Examples
6:45 - Consequences
8:00 - How to Overcome
9:30 - Conclusion

Keywords: confirmation bias, cognitive bias, psychology, behavioral economics, decision making, critical thinking, cognitive psychology