Teaching Psychology: An Exploration Into the Methods of Reducing Confirmation Bias
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Authors
Xiao, Cindy
Issue Date
2018
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
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Abstract
This study explores a method that teachers could
implement to reduce confirmation bias among students.
Two experimental groups were created: an “intervention
group”, where students were taught ways to reduce
confirmation bias in an informative and interactive manner,
and a “lecture only” group, where students were taught in
an informative however non-interactive manner. Data
collected from the study measured the number of
confirmatory versus disconfirmatory searches students
made when asked to evaluate or seek for evidence and
when given either an artificial hypothesis scenario or prior
belief scenario. Although our hypothesis that the
intervention group will engage in significantly more
disconfirming evidence searches compared to the lecture
only group was not shown, this study continues to support
the robustness of confirmation bias and how future
research in reducing its effects is still needed.
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1 broadside. Designed using Microsoft PowerPoint. 48"W x 36"H
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Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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