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Decoy effect

When deciding between two options, an unattractive third option can change the perceived preference between the other two.

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

Disposition effect

When doing stock investing, we tend to sell off stocks that do well/increase in price - and keep the stock that is performing poorly.

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

Doorway Effect

The Doorway Effect is a widely experienced phenomenon, wherein a person passing through a doorway may forget what they were doing or thinking about previously.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload,

Duration neglect

Our judgment of how unpleasant an experience is does not depend on the duration of the event - but on the peak(most intense part) and how quickly the pain reduces.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists,

Cheerleader effect/ Group attractiveness effect

Tendency to believe that individuals are more attractive when they are in a group.

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

Chesterton's fence

Ideally, we should not change something until we understand the purpose behind it.

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

Confabulation

Memory error - people sometimes have wrong/distorted memories that they are confident about.

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

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret favorably, favor, recall data/evidence in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information-overload, Notice Confirmations,

Conservatism

People don't easily change existing belief even when presented with new evidence.

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

Continued influence effect

Continue to believe wrong information even after learning that it's wrong.

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