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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,

Just-world hypothesis

Belief that people will get what they deserve. Or Everything happens for a reason.

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

Group attribution error

Belief that the characteristics of one person in a group must be there in all.

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

Hofstadter's law

It describes the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity.

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

Hot-hand fallacy

Belief that someone who has been successful will be more likely to be successful in future attempts.

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

Essentialism

Philosophical view that all things have a set of properties that are necessary to their identity.

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

Extrinsic incentive error

We think other people are driven more by extrinsic motivators(like monetary reward) and we are driven more by intrinsic motivators(learning a new skill).

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

False consensus effect

We think our beliefs, behaviours, personal qualities are the norm.

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

Frequency illusion

Once you learn a new word/concept, you see it everywhere.

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

Functional fixedness

Cognitive bias that limits your imagination of how an object can be used to only its traditional use.

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