The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive …. Because there is often systematic thought involved in generating the confirmation bias, deliberation tends to promote this … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …

, we show that regret aversion (unobservable bias) significantly reduces extremeness aversion (observable bias) and … mediates the influence of cognitive regulatory focus (unobservable bias). …

Cognitive biases distort judgement and adversely impact decision-making, which results in economic inefficiencies … reduced selected cognitive biases by 30 %. In this work I report results of an experiment which investigated the debiasing … effects of training on confirmation bias. The debiasing training took the form of a short video which contained information …

the absence of a desire to justify one’s decision after the choice …

decision makers to correct mood congruency biases, in which judgments and decisions are consistent with moods. In Experiment 1 …-consistent judgments eliminated bias in the former condition but not in the BSC condition. In Experiment 2 incentives were offered and …Moods are low intensity affective states that individuals bring to a decision, and may be especially important when the …