Confirmation bias is an odd choice. I think I can see where she’s coming from—people assume members of their respective political outgroups to be inherently malicious, and form their judgments of specific actions accordingly—but the assumption of malice does all the work there.
Hostile attribution bias seems like a better fit to me, maybe with a dash of outgroup homogenity.
Confirmation bias is an odd choice. I think I can see where she’s coming from—people assume members of their respective political outgroups to be inherently malicious, and form their judgments of specific actions accordingly—but the assumption of malice does all the work there.
Hostile attribution bias seems like a better fit to me, maybe with a dash of outgroup homogenity.