Liked or known things are better(9)


Well-traveled road effect

Tendency to think that travelling to an unfamiliar place has taken longer - but an equal time journey in very familiar route would feel shorter.

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

Reactive devaluation

Tendency to devalue ideas/proposals that comes from an 'enemy'.

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

Not invented here

Tendency to avoid things with an external origin.

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

Out-group homogeneity bias

The belief that the people in the out-group are very similar to each other.

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

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,

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,

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,

Halo effect

Tendency to transfer the good impression of a person/ company/ brand/ etc in one context to things they recommend in another context.

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