Emotional bias
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An emotional bias is a distortion in cognition and decision making due to emotional factors.
That is, a person will be usually inclined
- to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, that gives a pleasant feeling, even if there is evidence to the contrary.
- to be reluctant to accept hard facts that are unpleasant and give mental suffering.
Those factors can be either individual and self-centered, or linked to interpersonal relationship or to group influence.
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