Next-in-line effect

We tend to forget things that happened just before we have to perform something.

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Nocebo Effect

A nocebo effect is said to occur when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have.

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Normalcy bias

The brain sometimes ignores multiple warnings signals.

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Clustering illusion

Belief that streaks or clusters in parts of random data are non-random.

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Observer-expectancy effect

Experimenters interpreting results incorrectly because they have a pre-existing hypothesis.

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Illusory truth effect

We believe incorrect information to be correct after repeated exposure.

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Not invented here

Tendency to avoid things with an external origin.

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Omission bias

We favor an act of omission/inaction over commission/action.

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Ostrich effect

Avoiding negative information that can cause discomfort.

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Outcome bias

Evaluating the quality of a decision after the outcome is known.

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