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== Further reading ==
Leavitt, Fred (2015), Dancing with absurdity: Your most cherished beliefs (and all your others) are probably wrong, Peter Lang Publishers, ISBN 978-1-4539-1490-8, OCLC 908685982
Stanovich, Keith (2009), What intelligence tests miss: The psychology of rational thought (Lay), New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12385-2
Westen, Drew (2007), The political brain: The role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation, PublicAffairs, ISBN 978-1-58648-425-5, OCLC 86117725
Meppelink, Corine S., Edith G. Smit, Marieke L. Fransen, and Nicola Diviani. "'I Was Right about Vaccination': Confirmation Bias and Health Literacy in Online Health Information Seeking." Journal of Health Communication 24, no. 2 (2019): 129–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2019.1583701.
Pearson, George David Hooke, and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. "Is the Confirmation Bias Bubble Larger Online? Pre-Election Confirmation Bias in Selective Exposure to Online versus Print Political Information." Mass Communication & Society 22, no. 4 (2019): 466–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1599956.

== External links ==

Skeptic's Dictionary: confirmation bias – Robert T. Carroll
Teaching about confirmation bias – class handout and instructor's notes by K.H. Grobman
Confirmation bias at You Are Not So Smart
Confirmation bias learning object – interactive number triples exercise by Rod McFarland for Simon Fraser University
Brief summary of the 1979 Stanford assimilation bias study – Keith Rollag, Babson College