174 notes tagged with "cognitive-bias"

Cryptomnesia

We some times remember something that was forgotten - but we think that is an original thought that we made.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-memory, #cbias-memory-edit, #memory, #memory-bias

Published on 8 months ago

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, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-known-things-better

Published on 8 months ago

Curse of knowledge

When communicating with others, we assume that they have all the background information about the topic that we have already.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-guess-thoughts

Published on 8 months ago

Declinism

Belief that a society or institution is becoming worse over time.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-project-mind-state

Published on 8 months ago

Defensive attribution hypothesis

We tend to believe theories about the cause of a mishap in a way that minimizes our own blame or threat in that mishap.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-act-fast, #cbias-act-fast-important, #attribution

Published on 8 months ago

Delmore effect

We tend to have more defined and articulated goals about parts of our lives which has lower priority.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-avoid-irreversible, #cbias-prefer-simple

Published on 8 months ago

Denomination effect

Less likely to spend a large denomination currency than the equal value in smaller notes.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-math-simplification

Published on 8 months ago

Disposition effect

When doing stock investing, we tend to sell off stocks that do well/increase in price - and keep the stock that is performing poorly.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-act-fast, #cbias-finish, #behavior, #behavioral-finance

Published on 8 months ago

Decoy effect

When deciding between two options, an unattractive third option can change the perceived preference between the other two.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-act-fast, #cbias-autonomy

Published on 8 months ago

Distinction bias

When evaluating between two options, we view them as very different - as compared to evaluating them separately(we would have evaluated them very close to each other).

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-information-overload, #cbias-notice-change

Published on 8 months ago

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