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Cognitive Biases
- Stereotypes - "cognitive shortcuts" lead to biased thinking - Franchesca Ramsey, MTV Series "Decoded"
- Confirmation and Disconfirmation Bias - " We tend to be too accepting of information we want to hear and too critical of information we don’t want to hear." - Brendan Nyhan, American Political Scientist and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth
- Filter Bubbles - “The internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, not necessarily what we need to see” – Eli Pariser, TED Talk 2011
- Echo Chambers (Red Feed/Bue Feed) - "... social network can create “echo chambers,” where users see posts only from like-minded friends and media sources" - Wall Street Journal
- Motivated Reasoning- "a label for the seemingl y limitless power of partisanship and prior beliefs to color and distort perceptions of the political and social world"
Why Do You Think Stereotypes Are True?
Defining Confirmation Bias
The DIREKT Project Online Information Literacy (IL) Module Platform
