Misinformation and Disinformation: Thinking Critically about Information Sources

This Research Guide is loosely adapted from a guide developed by the Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation Bias: "subconscious tendency to seek and interpret information and other evidence in ways that affirm our existing beliefs, ideas, expectations, and/or hypotheses. Therefore, confirmation bias is both affected by and feeds our implicit biases. It can be most entrenched around beliefs and ideas that we are strongly attached to or that provoke a strong emotional response." Source: Facing History and Ourselves (This is a link to a lesson plan).

Who Me? Biased? A Video Series from The New York Times.

Twenty ways to cultivate an open mind from Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture & Context by Sue Ellen Christian