{"id":76471,"date":"2025-11-14T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/tendency-to-confirm\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:27:50","slug":"tendency-to-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/tendency-to-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendency to confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive distortion, where an opponent subconsciously seeks out and interprets information that supports their beliefs and ignores contradictory information. There are two main cognitive mechanisms (with a large number of additional ones, especially in negotiations) that explain the tendency to confirmation:<br \/>\n1) Problem avoidance. A person does not want to know that he is wrong. For example, if he believes deeply in a certain diet, he may ignore new research proving that it is ineffective.<br \/>\n2) Search for reinforcement. A person wants to know that he is right. For example, if someone believes that a particular teaching method is highly effective, they will pay more attention to the research that supports their point of view, ignoring those that show the shortcomings of the approach.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive distortion, where an opponent subconsciously seeks out and interprets information that supports their beliefs and ignores contradictory information. There are two main cognitive mechanisms (with a large number of additional ones, especially in negotiations) that explain the tendency to confirmation: 1) Problem avoidance. A person does not want to know that he is wrong. [&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":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-12-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychology-of-conflict-resolution-in-negotiation-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76471","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=76471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}