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Illusion of asymmetric insight

Belief that we know other people better than the other person knows us.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Think we know what others think,

Illusion of external agency

A belief that good/bad things happen to us because of external influences rather than personal actions.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Think we know what others think,

Illusion of transparency

We think other people can understand our mental state fairly accurately.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Think we know what others think,

Illusion of validity

Overestimation of ability to interpret and predict outcome when analysing data that shows a consistent pattern.

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

Illusory correlation

Perceiving a relation between things(people, behaviours, events, etc) when no such relation exists.

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

Illusory truth effect

We believe incorrect information to be correct after repeated exposure.

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

Implicit stereotype

We assign certain qualities to a member of an out group.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Discard specifics for generalizations,

In-group bias

Favouring people of your in-group over people outside.

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

Insensitivity to sample size

People tend to ignore sample size of data. They forget that variation is more likely in smaller sample sizes.

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

Irrational escalation

When we get negative feedback for an outcome we are invested in, we increase effort towards it instead of altering course.

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