Survey respondents will give answers that be viewed favourably by others.
We think that our traits, attitudes, behaviours, moods are relatively variable(it can change as needed) - but other peoples traits are more predictable and static.
We tend to defend the system we are in because it provides for many of our underlying needs.
Our thinking and perception is distorted in ways to enhance our self esteem.
We have a feeling of dislike and competitiveness towards people who we think are better than us.
Reactance is the resistance we feel when there is a threat to our behavioural freedom.
We adjust behaviour according to perceived risk - we are more risk taking when we feel protected, and more careful when we sense greater risk.
We overestimate our performance, think our performance is better than that of others, and think we have more accurate beliefs.
We tend to over-rely on a familiar tool.
We prefer to avoid making a loss over making a profit of the same value.
When we get negative feedback for an outcome we are invested in, we increase effort towards it instead of altering course.
We think our beliefs, behaviours, personal qualities are the norm.
When deciding between two options, an unattractive third option can change the perceived preference between the other two.
When doing stock investing, we tend to sell off stocks that do well/increase in price - and keep the stock that is performing poorly.
Ideally, we should not change something until we understand the purpose behind it.
We think that vague and generic personality descriptions that can apply to a lot of people are very accurate and made specifically for them.
Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.
It is possible for a group to decide on something that is against most or all of the group members' preference.
We want to finish a unit of anything we are consuming - we don't want to stop in the middle.
We overestimate our own qualities and abilities when compared to other people.
If we put in a lot of effort into something, its value will go up in our mind.
People generally put in more investment into a failing thing to win back the investment that has already gone in.
We think of an outcome as certain - but in reality if we zoom out, it would be part of a multi-step process - which in entirety is not certain.
Hard tasks makes you overconfident - and predict higher success probability while easier tasks makes you under confident - and predict lower success.
We exaggerate the probability of good things happening to us.
Hippo - or Highest Paid Person's Opinion. In meetings, there might be a person who has the most experience or authority(usually the boss). Decisions they make might go unchallenged.
We remember things better if our own mind makes it up rather than when we just read it.
We attribute the reason of our own(or of our friends) failures to the environment, but the failures of others(or our enemies) to their character.
We tend to believe theories about the cause of a mishap in a way that minimizes our own blame or threat in that mishap.
When we are presented with evidence against a pre-existing belief that we had, we sometimes reject the evidence and hold the belief even more strongly.
We prefer to eliminate risks **completely** in a smaller part rather than reduce overall risk even if the second option reduces risk to a greater extend.
Reverse psychology is a manipulation technique that asks someone to do something opposite to the action that is actually required.
We overestimate how much control we have over situations.
We think that mass media affects other people more than it affects us.
We prefer the current situation. We tend to think it is better than other alternatives.
We value things much higher if we created them(even partially).
We overestimate our own perspective.
We want to keep a thing we own more than we want to get the same thing when we don't own it.