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Confirmation bias leads people to ignore expert advice.

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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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7 sources for · 2 against

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Is it true that confirmation bias leads people to ignore expert advice?

Partly. Several sources describe confirmation bias as a tendency to favor confirming information and ignore contradicting evidence, and one small illustration shows someone ignoring advice that conflicts with his preferences. However, other sources find that people still value and engage with expertise, and that selective information processing can be adaptive rather than a blanket ignoring of expert advice.

Verdict: CONTESTED PARTIAL · 7 sources for, 2 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 7
Confirmation bias
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Confirmation bias. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Evidence against · 2
“Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice
2026
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Larsen, L. T. (2026). “Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921261470463

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Confirmation Bias
2021
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Gorman, S. E. & Gorman, J. M. (2021). Confirmation Bias. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547458.003.0004

Does AI Make People More Open or Reinforce Bias?-AI Recommendation and Confirmation Bias
2025
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Yin, X., Feng, J., Hu, L., & Wu, Z. (2025). Does AI Make People More Open or Reinforce Bias?-AI Recommendation and Confirmation Bias. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5212068

Action bias in the public's clinically inappropriate expectations for antibiotics.
2020
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A, T., M, S., M, J., & S, O. (2020). Action bias in the public's clinically inappropriate expectations for antibiotics.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000269

Person Takes Certain Advice
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Person Takes Certain Advice. (n.d.). english.stackexchange.com. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/262799

encyclopedia-of-philosophy 202010
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encyclopedia-of-philosophy 202010. (n.d.). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-of-philosophy_202010

How Confidence in Prior Attitudes, Social Tag Popularity, and Source Credibility Shape Confirmation Bias Toward Antidepressants and Psychotherapy in a Representative German Sample: Randomized Controlled Web-Based Study
2019
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Schweiger, S. & Cress, U. (2019). How Confidence in Prior Attitudes, Social Tag Popularity, and Source Credibility Shape Confirmation Bias Toward Antidepressants and Psychotherapy in a Representative German Sample: Randomized Controlled Web-Based Study. zenodo.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3353608

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Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition
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Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0131

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