{"id":74781,"date":"2025-11-14T21:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/forms-of-cognitive-political-bias\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:03:44","slug":"forms-of-cognitive-political-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/forms-of-cognitive-political-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Forms of cognitive political bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Systematic deviations in thinking and information processing related to political views that affect the formation of political judgments and decision-making:<br \/>\n1) Bias in the interpretation of information: news or objective data is reinterpreted to bring it into line with pre-existing facts.<br \/>\n2) Choice of sources: the tendency to follow media outlets that support pre-existing beliefs and ignore sources with opposing information.<br \/>\n3) Strengthening stereotypes: strengthening the initial impression of various political parties and refusing to revise it despite new facts.<br \/>\n4) Resistance to change: difficulties in changing political beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systematic deviations in thinking and information processing related to political views that affect the formation of political judgments and decision-making: 1) Bias in the interpretation of information: news or objective data is reinterpreted to bring it into line with pre-existing facts. 2) Choice of sources: the tendency to follow media outlets that support pre-existing beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-16-key-psychological-concepts-in-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}