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Cross-race effect

Tendency to recognize faces from your own race more easily when compared to recognizing faces from other races.

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

Curse of knowledge

When communicating with others, we assume that they have all the background information about the topic that we have already.

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

Barnum effect

We think that vague and generic personality descriptions that can apply to a lot of people are very accurate and made specifically for them.

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

Base rate fallacy

We tend to overvalue the specific information - rather than integrating it with general information like the base rate.

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

Bias blind spot

It's more difficult to notice biases in ourselves.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Notice flaws in others,

Bizarreness effect

We remember bizarre material better.

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

Bucket error

Lumping a decision to a related but not necessarily causing result.

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

Appeal to probability fallacy

Belief that if it's possible, then it's probable.

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

Argument from fallacy

The idea that since an argument had a logical fallacy in it, it must be false.

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

Attentional bias

What we believe/want influences what we focus on/notice.

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