Emotional bias

An emotional bias is a distortion in cognition and decision making due to emotional factors. That is, a person will be usually inclined * to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, that gives a pleasant feeling, even if there is evidence to the contrary. * to be reluctant to accept hard facts that are unpleasant and give mental suffering. Those factors can be either individual and self-centered, or linked to interpersonal relationship or to group influence.

Emotional bias

An emotional bias is a distortion in cognition and decision making due to emotional factors. That is, a person will be usually inclined * to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, that gives a pleasant feeling, even if there is evidence to the contrary. * to be reluctant to accept hard facts that are unpleasant and give mental suffering. Those factors can be either individual and self-centered, or linked to interpersonal relationship or to group influence.