Information Literacy and Confirmation Bias: You Can Lead a Person to Information, but Can You Make Him Think?

Date

2017-07-01

Authors

Allan, Mark

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Publisher

Informed Librarian Online

Abstract

Many librarians teach information literacy skills including how to identify “fake news” without seemingly incorporating information about the confirmation bias. Suggestions for incorporating this topic into various credibility and information literacy models are addressed, along with techniques that librarians can utilize or teach to their patrons to overcome this bias.

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Keywords

Confirmation bias, cognitive bias, psychology, library science, psychology, information literacy, library instruction, fake news, congeniality bias, myside bias

Citation

Allan, M. A. (2017). Information literacy and confirmation bias: You can lead a person to information, but can you make him think? Informed Librarian Online, May.