174 notes tagged with "cognitive-bias"

Subjective validation

You believe a hypothesis because it has personal meaning/significance to you.

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Suggestibility

Suggestibility is tendency to accept or act on the suggestion of others.

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Sunk Cost Fallacy

People generally put in more investment into a failing thing to win back the investment that has already gone in.

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Survivorship bias

Concentrating on the people/things that got past a selection point.

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Swimmer’s body illusion

People confuse selection factors with results.

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System justification

We tend to defend the system we are in because it provides for many of our underlying needs.

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Telescoping effect

Events in the past or future seems more distant(backward telescoping/time expansion) or nearer(forward telescoping) than they actually are.

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Testing effect

We remember things for a longer period if we try to recall it once in a while.

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Third-person effect

We think that mass media affects other people more than it affects us.

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Time-saving bias

We underestimate time saved when moving from a relatively smaller speed to higher speed. Also, we overestimate time saved when moving from a relatively faster speed to even faster speed.

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