Cognitive Biases in Chronic Illness and Their Impact on Patients' Commitment

Frontiers in Psychology

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Lucrezia Savioni¹  Stefano Triberti¹ 

[1] Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan;Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS

关键词: decision making;    chronic disease;    chronic illness;    cognitive bias;    patient engagement;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.579455

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Cognitive biases are constructs based on erroneous or deformed perceptions which producesystematically distorted representations with respect to some aspects of the objective reality, suchas prejudices (Haselton et al., 2005). Biases impact everyday life because they affect decisions andbehaviors. For example, one may persist in an unhealthy behavior (e.g., smoking) because heselectively overestimates evidence that feeds up a pre-existing conviction (e.g., “smoking boosts myconcentration”) (Masiero et al., 2019): this is known as confirmation bias (Hernandez and Preston,2013).

【 授权许可】

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