174 notes tagged with "cognitive-bias"

Framing effect

People's choices can change based on how the question is framed or worded.

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

Published on 8 months ago

Fundamental Attribution Error

We attribute the reason of our own(or of our friends) failures to the environment, but the failures of others(or our enemies) to their character.

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

Published on 8 months ago

Gambler’s fallacy

If an unlikely event(that's statistically independent) occurred multiple times, it's less likely to occur in the future.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-meaning-from-little-data

Published on 8 months ago

Functional fixedness

Cognitive bias that limits your imagination of how an object can be used to only its traditional use.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-meaning-from-stereotypes

Published on 8 months ago

Frequency illusion

Once you learn a new word/concept, you see it everywhere.

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

Published on 8 months ago

Generation effect

We remember things better if our own mind makes it up rather than when we just read it.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-act-fast, #cbias-finish, #memory, #memory-bias

Published on 8 months ago

Google effect

We tend to forget something that we looked up online.

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

Published on 8 months ago

Group attribution error

Belief that the characteristics of one person in a group must be there in all.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-meaning-from-stereotypes

Published on 8 months ago

Halo effect

Tendency to transfer the good impression of a person/ company/ brand/ etc in one context to things they recommend in another context.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-known-things-better

Published on 8 months ago

Hindsight Bias

People tend to think that events could have been easily predictable AFTER the outcome is clear.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-not-enough-meaning, #cbias-project-mind-state

Published on 8 months ago

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