Assertion: bias's effect | /r/HasProperty | cognitive bias
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text: effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
text: For example, consider the backfire effect, which is a cognitive bias that causes people to strengthen their support for their preexisting beliefs when they encounter evidence which shows that these beliefs are wrong.