Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment in which an animal's inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or by its own emotional state, so that an animal is sometimes said to construct its own subjective social reality from its perception of the input. In humans, for comparison, an optimistic or pessimistic bias might affect how a person answers the question of whether a glass is half empty or half full.
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Core ClaimCognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment in which inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states. 1 Classification
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Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states.
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Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment in which an animal's inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or by its own emotional state, so that an animal is sometimes said to construct its own subjective social reality from its perception of the input.
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Wikipedia article 'Cognitive bias in animals' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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