In essence, confirmation bias is a tendency to see and hear what we want to see and hear, even when reality differs from our perceptions. Psychology students learn in introductory courses that our brains interpret information from our senses to fit our expectations.The Earth-centered model of the universe is an oft-cited example of confirmation bias. Until the 18th century the Catholic Church held that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the sun, moon and stars rotated around the Earth.Church authorities based their conclusion on the apparent movement of celestial bodies across the >>>

University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychology graduate student Samantha Pittenger created a new approach to studying the revictimization of child sexual assault victims, according to a UNL news release. As a student in the Child Maltreatment Lab, Pittenger began doing her dissertation research on child sexual assault.Revictimization is defined by the Research Advocacy Digest as “the phenomenon in which individuals who have experienced child sexual abuse are at greater risk than others for adolescent >>>