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Explore 2 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Wishful thinking is the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of desired outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of undesired ones, letting preferences distort beliefs.
Social Biases / Motivated beliefs
/ Hopeful Bias
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The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms pre-existing beliefs while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.
Cognitive Biases
/ Confirmatory Bias