TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Confirmation bias in visual search
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Rajsic, Jason
A1  - Wilson, Daryl E.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
SP  - 1353
EP  - 1364
VL  - 41
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000090
ID  - ref1
ER  -