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Cognitive Biases
Stereotypes
"cognitive shortcuts" lead to biased thinking - Franchesca Ramsey, MTV Series "Decoded"
Confirmation and Disconfirmation Bias
" We tend to be too accepting of information we want to hear and too critical of information we don’t want to hear." - Brendan Nyhan, American Political Scientist and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth
Filter Bubbles
“The internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, not necessarily what we need to see” – Eli Pariser, TED Talk 2011
Echo Chambers (Red Feed/Bue Feed)
"... social network can create “echo chambers,” where users see posts only from like-minded friends and media sources" - Wall Street Journal
Motivated Reasoning
"a label for the seemingly limitless power of partisanship and prior beliefs to color and distort perceptions of the political and social world"
Media Bias Chart
Media Bias Chart: Version 4.0
Developed by Vanessa Otero
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