confirming

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Our experiments found they were more likely to consider disconfirming evidence, resist motivated reasoning and remain open to revising their views.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

Academic researchers are unlikely to risk alienating their peers by publishing disconfirming results, predicts Elizabeth Iorns, head of Science Exchange in Palo Alto, California.

From Nature • Feb. 3, 2016

As a result, we are cognitively blind to disconfirming data and challenging ideas.

From Forbes • Aug. 4, 2014

“Although such confirmation-biased information is often less probative than disconfirming information might be, people fail to recognize the weakness of the confirming feedback they receive or recall,” Findley writes.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2012

However, and this is where I think the business-like advice in the critique falters, a defensive motivation often entails looking systematically through both supporting and disconfirming information in order to make a judgment.

From Scientific American • Sep. 2, 2012