Question

Marissa believes that clowns are evil. She meets two men who are very nice and then learns that they are clowns. Despite this, she does not adjust her belief and continues to think clowns are evil. This is called confirmation bias. deductive reasoning. inductive reasoning. belief perseverance.

Answer 1

The correct answer is belief perseverance. That's a phenomenon in which people keep believing what they believe commonly even when they've been presented with evidence that their belief is incorrect. It's common and here it's about her belief that clowns are evil even though she has seen some that aren't.