Is there a help group for people who suffer from confirmation bias?

Aside from explaining what confirmation bias is to them and why they are experiencing it…no.

That seems circular – not sure who would even come to these groups?

If you have confirmation bias, you are unlikely to admit that you have a problem, because the fact of acknowledging it would mean that you don’t have confirmation bias.

Infinite loop.

Teaching and encouraging critical thinking. Even people that I know who appreciate and use critical thinking fail to apply it when accused of bias, so it can’t just be an awareness, it has to be motivated. So, we have to make critical thinking cool. It should be equated with status, so that people want to think more critically.

Is that likely to happen? No, of course not, but I think it would work if it did. :)

You’d have to admit every person on earth.

I misread the question. I read “help for a group…”

The thing about support groups is that they enable a person to identify their problem as something that others have dealt with/addressed in a healthy manner.

A “confirmation bias” group would be people sitting around and saying, “yes, we agree with you!”

I don’t know, but if I go looking for it, I’m sure I’ll find one.

I went through Confirmation as a Catholic rite when I was 14. I have no bias about it now. If there were a group of people dealing with Confirmation bias, it would seem a useless endeavor.

What thee hell is conformation bias?

A confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs or biases. For example, imagine that a person holds a belief that left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people. Whenever this person encounters a person that is both left-handed and creative, they place greater importance on this evidence supporting their already existing belief. This individual might even seek proof that further backs up this belief while discounting examples that do not support this idea. Confirmation biases impact how people gather information, but they also influence how people interpret and recall information. For example, people who support or oppose a particular issue will not only seek information that supports their beliefs, they will also interpret news stories in a way that upholds their existing ideas and remember things in a way that also reinforces these attitudes.

The attached article also has examples.

Thank you @rojo.
Well, just like anything else people have to recognize that there is a problem before they’ll seek help.

Everyone has confirmation bias to some degree (no one, however, would admit to it).