Talk:Myside bias

Redundant?
How is this anything more than a reworded version of confirmation bias? --maru  (talk)  contribs 17:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Or a reworded version of the disconfirmation bias?

Indeed, Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (in press). Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability. Thinking & Reasoning. use the term Myside, but they mention also the term confirmation bias as follows: ...Nickerson (1998) has reviewed the literature on many of these effects and uses the term confirmation bias to refer to the demonstrated phenomenon of ‘‘inappropriate bolstering of hypotheses or beliefs whose truth is in question’’... Erhasalz 21:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

MySide Bias is more than just confirmation bias
Confirmation bias involves confirming something that you already believed or stated previously. It involves "confirming" something you have previously decided to support. MySide Bias has to do with supporting something when it comes from your side, even if you have never thought about it before, that you might not have supported had it come from the other 'side'.

"Myside bias can be viewed as a subclass of confirmation bias (McKenzie, 2004) and is related to the construct of actively open-minded thinking (Baron, 2008)." ~https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721413480174

It seems some people do consider them to be the same, but they like the term "MySide Bias" better: "Myside bias is a common type of cognitive bias where people process information in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes [6–11]. It occurs when people seek, interpret, and remember evidence to confirm their preexisting beliefs and to refute opinions different from their own. For example, people with certain political affiliations may selectively tune in news channels that align with their own political views, take the broadcast information as truth, and remember the information over time in spite of new, view-opposing information from other sources. Some researchers consider myside bias to be a subclass of confirmation bias [12, 13], and some suggest that “myside bias” is a more precise term than “confirmation bias” to refer to the tendency of processing information to support one’s own position [7]. We thus use the term myside bias here. Myside bias reflects a deficiency in critical or rational thinking rather than general cognitive abilities or intelligence [7, 9, 13]. On the other hand, social biases, such as sexism, ageism, racism, and classism, are inclinations or prejudices against individuals or groups on the basis of gender, age, race, or social class." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7546453/ Myclob (talk) 18:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)