Confirmation bias: how self-deception affects our decisions
Confirmation bias: a ‘self-deception’ that limits decisions and favors information that validates preconceptions and personal beliefs.
Why we're all behavioral economists
Confirmation bias: a ‘self-deception’ that limits decisions and favors information that validates preconceptions and personal beliefs.
The situation we are experiencing during the current Covid-19 pandemic confronts individuals with challenges of a different nature, highlighting, among many complex dynamics, the closely interconnected nature of certain decision behaviors. This concept can be analyzed by taking as a reference the issue related to the contagion containment measures, which have affected Italy, since the beginning of Covid-19 emergency and continue to do so. Crucially, the reduction of the harm caused by the contagion would depend upon the collective adoption of those measures.