I knew a psychologist who was calling it self-referentiality.
People are always trying to see only the sentence which confirm their beliefs.
What's the correct name for this?
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Sign up to join this communityI knew a psychologist who was calling it self-referentiality.
People are always trying to see only the sentence which confirm their beliefs.
What's the correct name for this?
The actual act of "Trying to see only the sentence which confirms his beliefs" would generally be called confirmation bias.