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- Biased assimilation occurs when perceptions of new evidence are interpreted in such a way as to be assimilated into preexisting assumptions and expectations. Because this bias may not be deliberate, people suspect the motives of others who do not share their evaluations, and the bias is difficult to overcome.
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Sep 23, 2009 · Biased assimilation occurs when perceptions of new evidence are interpreted in such a way as to be assimilated into preexisting assumptions and expectations. Because this bias may not be deliberate, people suspect the motives of others who do not share their evaluations, and the bias is difficult to overcome.
- Biased assimilation: the role of source position ...
Biased assimilation is the tendency to evaluate...
- Biased assimilation: the role of source position ...
The assimilation effect, assimilation bias or biased assimilation is a bias in evaluative judgments towards the position of a context stimulus, while contrast effects describe a negative correlation between a judgment and contextual information.
Apr 4, 2013 · We base our model on a well-known phenomenon in social psychology called biased assimilation, according to which individuals process new information in a biased manner whereby they readily accept confirming evidence while critically examining disconfirming evidence.
- Pranav Dandekar, Ashish Goel, David Lee
- 2012
Sep 1, 2009 · Biased assimilation occurs when perceptions of new evidence are interpreted in such a way as to be assimilated into preexisting assumptions and expectations.
Jul 4, 2016 · When exposed to conflicting arguments, individuals often evaluate arguments congruent with their preexisting attitudes (or beliefs) favorably and arguments incongruent with their preexisting attitudes unfavorably. This phenomenon is referred to as biased assimilation (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979).
- Keiichi Kobayashi
- 2016
Biased assimilation of conflicting arguments is a psychological mechanism by which the recipients irrationally resist changing their attitudes, including sexual prejudices (Munro & Ditto, 1997), skep-ticism about climate change (Corner, Whitmarsh, & Xenias, 2012), and political partisanship (Greitemeyer, Fischer, Frey, & Schulz-Hardt, 2009; Munr...
Jan 29, 2009 · Biased assimilation is the tendency to evaluate belief-consistent information more positively than belief-inconsistent information. Previous research has demonstrated that biased assimilation is due to an inconsistency between an argument and the recipient's position toward this argument.
