One is what we talked about before regarding first impressions, which is a confirmation bias.

其中一个就是我们之间谈第一印象是，讲到的确认偏向。

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They might matter a lot because humans have, in general, a confirmation bias such that once you believe something other information is then encoded along the likes to support what you believe.

可能是因为人…,所有人都有确认偏向,也就是说，一旦你相信了某件事,其他信息都会被你解读成,支持你所相信的信息。

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Again and again and again he quotes Levi-Strauss in confirmation of his own arguments, only then in a way to turn on him by pointing out that there is something even in what he's saying there that he hasn't quite thought through.

他一遍又一遍地引用列维，斯特劳斯的观点,来支持自己论点，在批驳其论点时也只是指出,他在某点上,考虑不够全面。

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