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Emotional bias
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An emotional bias is a distortion in cognition and decision making due to emotional factors. That is, a person will be more inclined to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, even if there is evidence to the contrary.
Those factors can be either individual, or linked to interpersonal relationship or to group influence.
Its effects can be similar to those of a cognitive bias, it can even be considered as a subcategory of such biases. The specificity is that the cause lies in one's desires, which diverts the attention of the person, more than in one's reasoning.
See also: Wishful thinking
