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Suggestibility

Suggestibility is tendency to accept or act on the suggestion of others.

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

Subadditivity effect

Belief that probability of the whole is lesser than the sum of probabilities of the parts.

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

Projection bias

We forecast our current preference on to a future event.

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

Optimism Bias

We exaggerate the probability of good things happening to us.

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

Neglect of probability

Tendency to ignore probability when making decisions in uncertain conditions.

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

Misattribution of memory

We tend to wrongly identify the source of a memory at point of recall.

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

Mere-Exposure Effect

Psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.

Tagged With: cognition, Information Overload, Notice primed or repeated,

Identifiable victim effect

We are more willing to help a specific, identifiable person over a large but vaguely defined group with the same issue.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Favor immediate, known things,

Hippo Effect

Hippo - or Highest Paid Person's Opinion. In meetings, there might be a person who has the most experience or authority(usually the boss). Decisions they make might go unchallenged.

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

Halo effect

Tendency to transfer the good impression of a person/ company/ brand/ etc in one context to things they recommend in another context.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Liked or known things are better,