Tulisan ini mendapat inspirasi dari: Rolf Dobeli, The Art of Thinking Clearly (London, UK: Sceptre, 2019), 21-26.
"It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives," Bacon, Francis, Work, Vol. 3, (2019): 348.
Percobaan dengan pola angka lihat: Peter C. Wason, "On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task," Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 12, no. 3 (1960): 129-40.
"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact," Warren Buffett di pertemuan tahunan Bershire Hathaway, 2002, dikutip dalam Peter Bevelin, Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (Malmo, Sweden: PCA Publications, 2007), 56.
Stereotipe sebagai kasus khusus bias konfirmasi, lihat: Roy F. Baumeister, The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005), 198-200.
Confirmation Bias, Cognitive Bias