First Impressions Matter: A Model of Confirmatory Bias
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 114 (1) , 37-82
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399555945
Abstract
Psychological research indicates that people have a cognitive bias that leads them to misinterpret new information as supporting previously held hypoKeywords
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