I haven't looked into the quality of the study, and they don't investigate the mechanism, but it did catch my interest.

very interesting, will have to research that more

birdeye21

There's some recent evidence that confirmation bias actually gets worse in people who understand confirmation bias: i.e. people succumb to confirmation bias more, when they are trying not to.

What are the most DANGEROUS cognitive traps to fall into?

Probably confirmation bias

There's some recent evidence that confirmation bias actually gets worse in people who understand confirmation bias: i.e. people succumb to confirmation bias more, when they are trying not to.