Availability Heuristic

You overestimate the probability of something that you hear more often/remember easily.

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Backfire effect

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.

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Bandwagon effect

Tendency to follow the crowd. Adopting behaviors, practices, attitudes, beliefs only because others are doing it.

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Base rate fallacy

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

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Belief bias

We judge arguments based on the probability of the conclusion rather than how strongly the argument supports the conclusion.

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Barnum effect

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

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Broaden-and-build Theory

Negative emotions have immediate survival benefits. Positive emotions have long term benefits.

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Bias blind spot

It's more difficult to notice biases in ourselves.

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Bike shed effect

We tend to spend more time on figuring out trivial things rather than spending time on the important things.

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Bizarreness effect

We remember bizarre material better.

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