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Testing effect

We remember things for a longer period if we try to recall it once in a while.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Store memory differently based on the experience,

Telescoping effect

Events in the past or future seems more distant(backward telescoping/time expansion) or nearer(forward telescoping) than they actually are.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Current mind state is projected,

System justification

We tend to defend the system we are in because it provides for many of our underlying needs.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need to Act fast, Want to have autonomy and status, social-psychology,

Swimmer's body illusion

People confuse selection factors with results.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Simplification of Probability and Numbers,

Survivorship bias

Concentrating on the people/things that got past a selection point.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Simplification of Probability and Numbers,

Subjective validation

You believe a hypothesis because it has personal meaning/significance to you.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Drawn existing beliefs,

Stereotyping

General belief about a group of people - and expects that belief to be true of all individuals in the group.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Jump to conclusions using stereotypes,

Spotlight effect

We think we are noticed/thought about by others way more than we actually are.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Think we know what others think,

Self serving bias

Our thinking and perception is distorted in ways to enhance our self esteem.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Feel important and impactful, Need to Act fast,

Self-consistency bias

We believe that we are consistent in our beliefs, behaviours, options, attitudes, etc.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Not enough meaning, Current mind state is projected, memory,