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Attentional bias
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Attentional bias is the tendency for people's perception to be affected by their recurring thoughts at the time.

For example, smokers tend to possess a bias for cigarettes and other smoking-related cues around them, due to the positive thoughts they've already attributed between smoking and the cues they were exposed to while smoking.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: Wikipedia
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