The tendency to seek and uncritically trust any new information that confirms one's existing beliefs and opinions and to disregard any information that challenges them is termed as _____.
A) confirmation bias
B) doxing
C) vigilantism
D) participatory journalism

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Confirmation bias is the psychological tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.

The Tendency to Seek and Uncritically Trust Any New Information