confirmation bias: alternatives and connections

One who agrees.

Approbation.

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.

support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished…

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

additional evidence or evidence of different kind that supports a proof already offered in a proceeding

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.

A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admis…

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…

a transaction in which a party purchases or sales a given product, and agrees to deliver it at a specific future time.

a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not…

The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retain…

Formed or acquired by habit or use.