@article{ref1,
title="Confirmation bias in visual search",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2015",
author="Rajsic, Jason and Wilson, Daryl E. and Pratt, Jay",
volume="41",
number="5",
pages="1353-1364",
abstract="In a series of experiments, we investigated the ubiquity of confirmation bias in cognition by measuring whether visual selection is prioritized for information that would confirm a proposition about a visual display. We show that attention is preferentially deployed to stimuli matching a target template, even when alternate strategies would reduce the number of searches necessary. We argue that this effect is an involuntary consequence of goal-directed processing, and show that it can be reduced when ample time is provided to prepare for search. These results support the notion that capacity-limited cognitive processes contribute to the biased selection of information that characterizes confirmation bias. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/xhp0000090",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000090"
}