Backfiring Effect
Biases and information disorder
Our brains can take mental "shortcuts" when processing information. We call them biases. Click on the words to find out more.
Confirmation Bias
In-Group Bias
Biases
Halo Effect
Anchoring Bias
Framing Effect
Confirmation Bias
We prefer information and opinions that confirm our beliefs.
What is it?
We tend to accept ideas that fit our beliefs and ignore or dismiss information that contradict them. Watch this video about echo chambers to better understand the relationship between echo chambers, misinformation and confirmation bias.
In what ways do echo chambers, misinformation, and confirmation bias influence and reinforce one another?
Backfiring Effect
We think people try to prove us wrong because they know we're right.
What is it?
The more evidence we are shown that suggests we are wrong, the more we tend to stick to our beliefs instead of accepting other options. Watch this video to better understand how this effect can "hurt" us.
How can information disorder contribute to the backfiring effect and vice-versa?
In-Group Bias
We tend to perceive and treat people that belong to our group more favourably.
What is it?
Depending on how we identify with or feel connected to a group can impact how we share and react to information. Watch this video and try to see different ways this bias could affect authors and audiences.
How can the harm caused by in-group biases be transferred to information disorder?
Framing Effect
The way information is presented affects our judgement of this information.
What is it?
How an issue or information is presented - whether it sounds positive or negative - can change how we feel about it. Sometimes it’s not what is said, but how it is said that affects our reaction. Click on this picture to better understand how this effect can influence us.
How can someone use the framing effect to influence how we feel or react to an issue or information?
Halo effect
Our impression of the messenger can affect the message.
What is it?
How much we like or dislike someone, or how attractive we find them, can influence how we react to the information they share. Watch this video from 1:58 to 3:38 to better understand how this effect pushes us to accept or reject information .
How can the halo effect contribute to information disorder?
anchoring Bias
Our first impression can be an achor for how we perceive newer information.
What is it?
Our first impression of something often sticks, and we tend to compare alll new information to that starting point. Looking at that headline or that picture, someone's first impresion might be that electric cars are dangerous, when in fact they are not more likely to burn than gas cars.
Headline: CNN Business, added image: Flickr
How can other biases affect the "weight" of anchor biases when receiving new information?
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Transcript
Backfiring Effect
Biases and information disorder
Our brains can take mental "shortcuts" when processing information. We call them biases. Click on the words to find out more.
Confirmation Bias
In-Group Bias
Biases
Halo Effect
Anchoring Bias
Framing Effect
Confirmation Bias
We prefer information and opinions that confirm our beliefs.
What is it?
We tend to accept ideas that fit our beliefs and ignore or dismiss information that contradict them. Watch this video about echo chambers to better understand the relationship between echo chambers, misinformation and confirmation bias.
In what ways do echo chambers, misinformation, and confirmation bias influence and reinforce one another?
Backfiring Effect
We think people try to prove us wrong because they know we're right.
What is it?
The more evidence we are shown that suggests we are wrong, the more we tend to stick to our beliefs instead of accepting other options. Watch this video to better understand how this effect can "hurt" us.
How can information disorder contribute to the backfiring effect and vice-versa?
In-Group Bias
We tend to perceive and treat people that belong to our group more favourably.
What is it?
Depending on how we identify with or feel connected to a group can impact how we share and react to information. Watch this video and try to see different ways this bias could affect authors and audiences.
How can the harm caused by in-group biases be transferred to information disorder?
Framing Effect
The way information is presented affects our judgement of this information.
What is it?
How an issue or information is presented - whether it sounds positive or negative - can change how we feel about it. Sometimes it’s not what is said, but how it is said that affects our reaction. Click on this picture to better understand how this effect can influence us.
How can someone use the framing effect to influence how we feel or react to an issue or information?
Halo effect
Our impression of the messenger can affect the message.
What is it?
How much we like or dislike someone, or how attractive we find them, can influence how we react to the information they share. Watch this video from 1:58 to 3:38 to better understand how this effect pushes us to accept or reject information .
How can the halo effect contribute to information disorder?
anchoring Bias
Our first impression can be an achor for how we perceive newer information.
What is it?
Our first impression of something often sticks, and we tend to compare alll new information to that starting point. Looking at that headline or that picture, someone's first impresion might be that electric cars are dangerous, when in fact they are not more likely to burn than gas cars.
Headline: CNN Business, added image: Flickr
How can other biases affect the "weight" of anchor biases when receiving new information?