confirmation bias

tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses
Event cognitive_bias Q431498
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confirmation bias

Summary

confirmation bias is a cognitive bias[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of cognitive_bias entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,402 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • confirmation bias's instance of is recorded as cognitive bias[3].
  • confirmation bias's subclass of is recorded as cognitive bias[4].
  • confirmation bias's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[5].
  • confirmation bias's has part is recorded as tunnel vision[6].
  • confirmation bias's has part is recorded as splinternet[7].
  • confirmation bias's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g3vs[8].
  • confirmation bias's spoken text audio is recorded as Wikipedia - Confirmation bias (spoken by AI voice).mp3[9].
  • confirmation bias's described by source is recorded as Red Blue Translator[10].
  • confirmation bias's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/confirmation-bias[11].
  • confirmation bias's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q123554264[12].
  • confirmation bias's PhilPapers topic is recorded as confirmation-bias[13].
  • confirmation bias's Quora topic ID is recorded as Confirmation-Bias[14].
  • confirmation bias's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as confirmation-bias[15].
  • confirmation bias's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bekreftelsestendens[16].
  • confirmation bias's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 79585631[17].
  • confirmation bias's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/ConfirmationBias[18].
  • confirmation bias's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Confirmation_bias[19].
  • confirmation bias's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C79585631[20].
  • confirmation bias's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 34986[21].
  • confirmation bias's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as oshibka-podtverzhdeniia-fbc9c6[22].

Why It Matters

confirmation bias ranks in the top 2% of cognitive_bias entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,402 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). confirmation bias. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/confirmation-bias
MLA “confirmation bias.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/confirmation-bias.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_confirmation-bias_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{confirmation bias}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/confirmation-bias}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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