Prior work shows that confirmation bias, defined as the tendency to seek confirming evidence, is prevalent on the Web as well. While this has been attributed to individuals\u27 psychological needs or cognitive limitations, the roles of search engines and search contexts have largely been neglected. The goals of this study are to examine how search contexts may change the composition of search results, and how – if at all – search engines may contribute to confirmation bias. Results of two studies show that search engines may exacerbate confirmation bias by generating results that consist only of confirming evidence for search contexts where disconfirming evidence is identified using different terms or phrases. This induces individuals to ma...
Search engines play an important role in the provision of information. Recently, researchers have ra...
Objective: To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by con...
The act of seeking information pertaining to medical treatments and self-diagnosis is one of the app...
Prior work shows that confirmation bias, defined as the tendency to seek confirming evidence, is pre...
During online information search, users tend to select search results that confirm previous beliefs ...
In a series of experiments, we investigated the ubiquity of confirmation bias in cognition by measur...
People frequently answer consequential questions, such as those with a medical focus, using Internet...
Objective: To test whether individuals experience cognitive biases whilst searching using informatio...
People are susceptible to an array of cognitive biases, which can result in systematic errors and de...
This study examines how confirmation bias influences the search results of large scale web search en...
This research is possibly the first study investigating the impact of cognitive biases on informatio...
Purpose It is well known that information behaviour can be biased in countless ways and that users o...
Impacts of Internet use on political information seeking and subsequent processes have been subject ...
We examine how online searches lead to judgment formation in two contexts where statements are negat...
Among laymen and professionals the growing use of the Internet for easy access to information to mak...
Search engines play an important role in the provision of information. Recently, researchers have ra...
Objective: To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by con...
The act of seeking information pertaining to medical treatments and self-diagnosis is one of the app...
Prior work shows that confirmation bias, defined as the tendency to seek confirming evidence, is pre...
During online information search, users tend to select search results that confirm previous beliefs ...
In a series of experiments, we investigated the ubiquity of confirmation bias in cognition by measur...
People frequently answer consequential questions, such as those with a medical focus, using Internet...
Objective: To test whether individuals experience cognitive biases whilst searching using informatio...
People are susceptible to an array of cognitive biases, which can result in systematic errors and de...
This study examines how confirmation bias influences the search results of large scale web search en...
This research is possibly the first study investigating the impact of cognitive biases on informatio...
Purpose It is well known that information behaviour can be biased in countless ways and that users o...
Impacts of Internet use on political information seeking and subsequent processes have been subject ...
We examine how online searches lead to judgment formation in two contexts where statements are negat...
Among laymen and professionals the growing use of the Internet for easy access to information to mak...
Search engines play an important role in the provision of information. Recently, researchers have ra...
Objective: To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by con...
The act of seeking information pertaining to medical treatments and self-diagnosis is one of the app...