Confirmation bias cements both reputations and habitual trust

Evidence

The overall role of the confirmation bias, and a general cognitive inertia, in the preservation of trust would thus appear to be quite straightforward. Neither reputations nor habits are readily changed in the face of the merest challenge to their integrity or viability, as we all know and understand from our day-to-day experiences. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 677

Categorization

• XREF: Directly does the theoretical work the reader needs: cognitive inertia is why reputations resisting disconfirmation persist, linking to Luhmann’s familiarity sustaining trust without new monitoring. — connects to: False beliefs mostly persist through social transmission, not individual failings — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 30; Even disconfirmation evidence often fails to break a person’s confirmation bias — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 94