Category:Cognitive biases
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A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from
objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality
.
Although it may seem like such misperceptions would be aberrations, biases can help humans find commonalities and shortcuts to assist in the navigation of common situations in life.
Some cognitive
heuristics. Other cognitive biases are a "by-product" of human processing limitations, resulting from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms (bounded rationality), impact of individual's constitution and biological state (see embodied cognition
), or simply from a limited capacity for information processing.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- Cognitive inertia (39 P)
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Pages in category "Cognitive biases"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 251 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Courtesy bias
- Deviancy amplification spiral
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- Gambler's fallacy
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect
- Gender schema theory
- Generation effect
- Golem effect
- Group attribution error
- Groupshift
- Groupthink
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- Identifiable victim effect
- IKEA effect
- Illusion of asymmetric insight
- Illusion of control
- Illusion of explanatory depth
- Illusion of transparency
- Illusion of validity
- Illusory correlation
- Illusory superiority
- Illusory truth effect
- Impact bias
- Implicit cognition
- Implicit stereotype
- Impostor syndrome
- In-group favoritism
- Inequity aversion
- Information bias (psychology)
- Information cascade
- Insensitivity to sample size
- Intellectual humility
- Interpretive bias
- Introspection illusion
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- P-hacking
- Pareidolia
- Peak–end rule
- Perceptual psychology
- Persuasive definition
- Physical attractiveness stereotype
- Picture superiority effect
- Plan continuation bias
- Planning fallacy
- Plant blindness
- Political bias
- Pollyanna principle
- Positive illusions
- Positivity effect
- Positivity offset
- Pratfall effect
- Precision bias
- Preparedness paradox
- Present bias
- Probability matching
- Proportionality bias
- Pseudocertainty effect
- Psychological inertia
- Psychological pricing
- Psychological projection
- Psychology of climate change denial
- Puritanical bias
- Pygmalion effect
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- Scarcity heuristic
- Scope neglect