Apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas…
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You overestimate the probability of something that you hear more often/remember easily. Eg. We think accidents kill more people than strokes…
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Confirmation bias is the tendency to... search for interpret favorably favor recall information ... data/evidence in a way that confirms or…
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Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low competence in a field overestimate their competence. You need a certain…
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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…
Published on 10 months ago
People tend to think that events could have been easily predictable AFTER the outcome is clear. The certainty that people attribute to their…
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Duration Neglect: We remember specific memory from an event rather than the total duration. Peak End Rule: We overemphasize what happens at…
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Motivated Belief is when a person believes something because they want it to be true, not necessarily because that belief is supported by…
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Motivated Reasoning is a Cognitive bias - we tend to accept/believe more easily and with less scrutiny things we think are correct . If we…
Published on 2 years ago
The unwanted habits or behaviors are triggered by a negative emotion that you want to get away from. The unwanted behavior is how you…
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