Library Guides: Research Skills: Source Evaluation: Sources + Causes

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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 seemingly limitless power of partisanship and prior beliefs to color and distort perceptions of the political and social world"