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The Milgram experiment is problematic, yes. It's the most narrative-friendly, but there's an enormous body of work on this question, and it seems largely to poi
by Jeff_Brown 7y ago
The Milgram experiment is problematic, yes. It's the most narrative-friendly, but there's an enormous body of work on this question, and it seems largely to point in that direction. (Google Scholar claims 819,000 results for "confirmation bias".)
- jtbayly 7y agoBut confirmation bias is very different than believing everything you hear automatically (by default).
- morelisp 7y agoIndeed, confirmation bias might be summarized as "hearing what you believe" - very nearly the opposite.
- Jeff_Brown 7y agoYou're right. I get only 5 hits for "default to truth" -- which is so few that I think there must be a better keyword to search for.
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