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Cognitive Biases: Not Enough Meaning

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We find stories and patterns even in sparse data.
Confabulation
Clustering illusion
Insensitivity to sample size
Neglect of probability
Illusion of validity
Masked-man fallacy
Recency illusion
Gambler's fallacy
Hot-hand fallacy
Illusory correlation
Pareidolia
Anthropomorphism
We fill in characteristics from stereotypes, generalities, and prior histories whenever there are new specific instances or gaps in information.
Group attribution error
Ultimate attribution error
Stereotype
Essentialism
Functional fixedness
Moral credential effect
Just-world hypothesis
Argument from fallacy
Authority bias
Automation bias
Bandwagon effect
Placebo
We imagine things and people we’re familiar with or fond of as better than things and people we aren’t familiar with or fond of.
Halo effect
In-group favoritism
Out-group homogeneity
Cross-race effect
Cheerleader effect
Well travelled road effect
Not invented here
Reactive devaluation
Positivity effect
We simplify probabilities and numbers to make them easier to think about.
Mental accounting
Normalcy bias
Appeal to probability
Murphy's law
Subadditivity effect
Survivorship bias
Denomination effect
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
We think we know what others are thinking.
Curse of knowledge
Illusion of transparency
Spotlight effect
Illusion of external agency
Illusion of asymmetric insight
Extrinsic incentives bias
We project our current mindset and assumptions onto the past and future.
Hindsight bias
Outcome bias
Moral luck
Declinism
Telescoping effect
Rosy retrospection
Impact bias
Optimism bias
Planning fallacy
Time-saving bias
Pro-innovation bias
Affective forecasting
Restraint bias