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Generation effect

We remember things better if our own mind makes it up rather than when we just read it.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need to Act fast, We want to finish things, memory, memory-bias,

Fundamental Attribution Error

We attribute the reason of our own(or of our friends) failures to the environment, but the failures of others(or our enemies) to their character.

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

Defensive attribution hypothesis

We tend to believe theories about the cause of a mishap in a way that minimizes our own blame or threat in that mishap.

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

Context effect

We might not be able to recall information without memory aids/cues that we used at study.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Notice primed or repeated, memory,

Conjunction fallacy

We think that specific conditions are more probable than a single general condition.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Avoid Irreversible decisions, Simple or complete over complex, ambiguous,

Backfire effect

When we are presented with evidence against a pre-existing belief that we had, we sometimes reject the evidence and hold the belief even more strongly.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need to Act fast, We want to finish things,

Appeal to novelty

We believe that things are better just because they are new.

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

Anecdotal fallacy

We believe that personal experience/anecdotal examples trumps data or logical argument.

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

Zero risk bias

We prefer to eliminate risks **completely** in a smaller part rather than reduce overall risk even if the second option reduces risk to a greater extend.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need to Act fast, We want to finish things,

Spaced repetition

Spaced repetition is learning technique for better recall using flash cards(or related digital tools) to test your memory at specific intervals to strengthen memory.

Tagged With: memory, learning, psychology,