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Attribution Theory

'Attribution' is how people think the cause of their everyday experience are. These can be external or internal.

Tagged With: psychology, attribution,

Authority bias

We believe that the views of an authority figure(Eg. God, Govt., Parent) is more accurate - and let it influence our options.

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

Anthropomorphism

Assigning human traits, attributes, emotions or agency to non-human things.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Find patterns with little data,

Impact bias

We **overestimate** duration and intensity of future emotional states.

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

Gambler's fallacy

If an unlikely event(that's statistically independent) occurred multiple times, it's less likely to occur in the future.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Find patterns with little data,

Bandwagon effect

Tendency to follow the crowd. Adopting behaviours, practices, attitudes, beliefs only because others are doing it.

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

Suffix Effect

The Serial-position effect ie. strong recall of last item of the list, will be impaired if there is an irrelevant item(that need not be remembered) at the end of the list.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists,

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.

Tagged With: psychology, permanent-notes, cognition, Cognitive Bias, Feel important and impactful, Need to Act fast,

Abilene paradox

It is possible for a group to decide on something that is against most or all of the group members' preference.

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

Von Restorff effect

If there are multiple similar stimuli, we remember the one that differs from the rest.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Bizarre/funny is more noticeable,