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Post purchase rationalization

People justify a past decision by subconsciously giving it positive attributes.

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

Mental accounting

People tend to assign subjective value to money - this is susceptible to biases, thinking flaws.

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

Hindsight Bias

People tend to think that events could have been easily predictable AFTER the outcome is clear.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, cbias-not-enough-meaning, Current mind state is projected,

Hard Easy Effect

Hard tasks makes you overconfident - and predict higher success probability while easier tasks makes you under confident - and predict lower success.

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

Google effect

We tend to forget something that we looked up online.

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

False memory

Memory error that can create slightly wrong or wildly inaccurate recollection that the person is very confident about.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, We edit memories, memory,

Bystander effect

Individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, cbias-not-enough-meaning, Think we know what others think,

Broaden-and-build Theory

Negative emotions have immediate survival benefits. Positive emotions have long term benefits.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, We edit memories, psychology, emotion,

Automation bias

Tendency to believe decisions from an automated decision making system have more accuracy. And even ignore contradictory information made without automation.

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

Apophenia

The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, cbias-not-enough-meaning, cbias-patterns-with-little-data,