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Use 'consider the opposite' as a deliberate practice before…
Use 'consider the opposite' as a deliberate practice before finalizing judgments to counteract confirmation bias by forcing processing of disconfirming evidence.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from Belief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence (belief perseverance) and Automatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation (automatic narrative generation). It prescribes a specific cognitive intervention (construct the opposite case) that interrupts the automatic confirmation process. Lord, Lepper, and Preston demonstrated this reduces biased assimilation.