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 communityThe actual act of "Trying to see only the sentence which confirms his beliefs" would generally be called confirmation bias.