Tag: cognitive-bias
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Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures
“Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review“ We identify 39 cognitive biases that may compromise the fact-checking process. Through a systematic review, we highlight key categories of cognitive biases influencing human assessors. We propose a set of 11 countermeasures to mitigate the impact of cognitive biases on fact-checking activities. We describe the constituting…
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Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases
“Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases“ The authors argue that many different biases, such as the bias blind spot, hostile media bias, egocentric/ethnocentric bias, and outcome bias, can be traced back to the combination of a fundamental prior belief and humans’ tendency toward…
