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Normalcy bias

The brain sometimes ignores multiple warnings signals.

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

Not invented here

Tendency to avoid things with an external origin.

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

Omission bias

We favour an act of omission/inaction over commission/action.

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

Ostrich effect

Avoiding negative information that can cause discomfort.

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

Out-group homogeneity bias

The belief that the people in the out-group are very similar to each other.

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

Outcome bias

Evaluating the quality of a decision after the outcome is known.

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

Overconfidence effect

We overestimate our performance, think our performance is better than that of others, and think we have more accurate beliefs.

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

Law of narrative gravity

Public and press likes narratives. More widely accepted a narrative is, the more it shapes the perception of facts.

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

Law of the instrument

We tend to over-rely on a familiar tool.

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

Less-is-better effect

lesser option is preferred when evaluated separately.

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