Confirmation Bias in a Simulated Research Environment¶
Mynatt, C. R., Doherty, M. E., & Tweney, R. D. (1977). Confirmation Bias in a Simulated Research Environment: An Experimental Study of Scientific Inference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 29(1), 85-95.
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- Confirmation Bias
- Debiasing interventions — structured differential-diagnosis forms, consider-the-opposite prompts, second-opinion requirements, clinical decision-support systems that force explicit competing-hypothesis listing — are documented to reduce premature closure
This sourceSubjects in a simulated research universe fail to choose environments that test alternatives. Substantiates the lab confirmation-bias finding but NOT the claim that debiasing interventions reduce premature closure in medicine, which the marker sits on (see flag). Live-verified (SAGE).
- Debiasing interventions — structured differential-diagnosis forms, consider-the-opposite prompts, second-opinion requirements, clinical decision-support systems that force explicit competing-hypothesis listing — are documented to reduce premature closure
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