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Confirmation bias and success-chasing can hinder accurate associative learning and solidify false beliefs in decision-makers.

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Is it true that confirmation bias and success-chasing can hinder accurate associative learning and solidify false beliefs in decision-makers?

Yes. Multiple studies demonstrate that cognitive biases like confirmation bias and strong prior expectations impair accurate belief updating and entrench false beliefs during decision-making.

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The retrieved papers provide robust empirical support demonstrating how cognitive biases, confirmation tendencies, and prior beliefs (such as stereotypes or stable expectations) hinder accurate learning and maintain false beliefs. Papers 0, 5, and 11 directly address these mechanisms in reinforcement learning, clinical decision-making, and reversal-learning tasks.

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Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations.
2023
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M, B., D, S., D, G., UM, K., & IA, B. (2023). Aggressive and psychopathic traits are linked to the acquisition of stable but imprecise hostile expectations.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02497-0

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The effects of the confirmation bias on diagnostic decision making
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Parmley, M. C. & Herbert, J. D. (n.d.). The effects of the confirmation bias on diagnostic decision making. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-1164

Stereotypic beliefs dominate reversal learning.
2026
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MG, M., M, G., P, J., Y, S., ES, S., NO, R., & CN, M. (2026). Stereotypic beliefs dominate reversal learning.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48064-7

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