You and a friend are trying to decide where to have dinner tonight. Your friend suggests a well known 5 star restaurant, but you had a terrible experience last time you were there. When you look at the reviews of the restaurant online, almost all of the reviews are very positive. However, there are a couple of reviews that said that restaurant was terrible. Because of those bad reviews, you refuse to go there. This is known as .

This is known as CONFIRMATION BIAS.

Explanation: CONFIRMATION BIAS can be defined as a type of cognitive bias that involves an individual gathering or being receptive to information that strengthens their belief about a situation.

In this question, because of one terrible experience, the situation that led to the belief, the individual even upon seeing positive reviews, only choose to acknowledge the negative ones.

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