Recall from your text that researchers gave students false feedback about their abilities to distinguish between false and real documents. At the conclusion of the study, the researchers informed the students that their feedback was in no way related to their actual performance. However, on a subsequent task where the students had to estimate their performance on a similar task, they used this false feedback to guide their estimates. This is an example of

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Belief perseverance is the tendency for people to continue to hold beliefs even in the face of disconfirming evidence. In this case, the false feedback that the students received about their ability to distinguish between false and real documents became a part of their belief system, which they relied on even after being explicitly told it was false.

Recall from Your Text That Researchers Gave Students False Feedback