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Essay On Confirmation Bias

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Learning about the kinds of errors and biases we can make when passing judgements on ourselves or others is very interesting because it’s easy to spot examples from my own life when I’ve experienced many of these biases and now, I will hopefully be able to identify them and be aware of them in my daily life. One of these biases that I recently experienced in my life is the confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is when a person tends to look for information that will confirm what he/she already thinks or believes is true, and this can cause them to be blind to all the facts about a certain issue. This recently happened to me when I started working as a marketer for a new beauty product. I was selling a product that I believed to work and to …show more content…

While this may have happened some days and is kind of a funny coincidence, thinking that in some way my lack of bringing an umbrella had any real control or effect on the weather would be pretty biased thinking. Of all the biases and cognitive errors I’ve experienced I think counterfactual thinking is the one that I have experienced most regularly. I find myself thinking “what if” very frequently, and even though my conscious mind knows that there is no use wondering about scenarios that I have no control over, I can’t help but think it sometimes. I sometimes even catch myself thinking “what if” things would be better if I had made different choices is the past, if I had chosen a different relationship partner, and even if I had been born to different parents! While this might seem like a common or relatively normal cognitive error, it can be counterproductive because I may spend more time and energy thinking about things that I can’t do anything about, rather than productively thinking toward the future and my reality and focusing on things that do have the possibility to

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