Our judgment of how unpleasant an experience is does not depend on the duration of the event - but on the peak(most intense part) and how quickly the pain reduces.
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Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.
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If we put in a lot of effort into something, its value will go up in our mind.
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We want to keep a thing we own more than we want to get the same thing when we don't own it.
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Philosophical view that all things have a set of properties that are necessary to their identity.
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We think other people are driven more by extrinsic motivators(like monetary reward) and we are driven more by intrinsic motivators(learning a new skill).
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Memories associated with negative emotions are forgotten more quickly than memories associated with positive emotions.
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We think our beliefs, behaviors, personal qualities are the norm.
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Memory error that can create slightly wrong or wildly inaccurate recollection that the person is very confident about.
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