That’s what I was thinking - it’s not the most common form of confirmation bias (the one that makes people think they can switch off street lights by walking under them, or that they can compel people to phone them from a long distance, just by thinking about the subject), but it’s definitely something similar - seeing greater significance in what was there all along - that’s confirmation bias alright.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to disappear after asking the question, but at the last minute, we took off to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a Brewers fest!
Yay beer!
I think mangetout got it. I think that was the phenomenon we learned in psych 101.
I thought it was called White Van Syndrome, but I’m having trouble digging up a cite. Maybe somebody else has heard that expression and can dig one up.