Category:Cognitive biases
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the 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 biases are presumably adaptive. Cognitive biases may lead to more effective actions in a given context. Furthermore, allowing cognitive biases enables faster decisions which can be desirable when timeliness is more valuable than accuracy, as illustrated in 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 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Cognitive biases"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 262 total.
A
- Accentuation effect
- Action bias
- Actor–observer asymmetry
- Adaptive bias
- Additive bias
- Aesthetic–usability effect
- Affinity bias
- Ambiguity effect
- Anchoring effect
- Apophenia
- Attention inequality
- Attentional bias
- Attribute substitution
- Attribution (psychology)
- Attribution bias
- Authority bias
- Automation bias
- Availability cascade
- Availability heuristic
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F
- Fading affect bias
- Failure bias
- False consensus effect
- False-uniqueness effect
- Familiarity heuristic
- Favourite-longshot bias
- Fear of missing out
- First impression (psychology)
- Fluency heuristic
- Focusing illusion
- Framing (social sciences)
- Framing effect (psychology)
- Frequency illusion
- Functional fixedness
- Fundamental attribution error
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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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- Pareidolia
- Peak–end rule
- Perceptual defense
- Perceptual psychology
- Persuasive definition
- Physical attractiveness stereotype
- Picture superiority effect
- Planning fallacy
- Plant blindness
- Political bias
- Pollyanna principle
- Positive illusions
- Positivity offset
- Pratfall effect
- Precision bias
- Preparedness paradox
- Present bias
- Pretty privilege
- Probability matching
- Proportionality bias
- Proximity bias
- Pseudocertainty effect
- Psychological inertia
- Psychological pricing
- Psychological projection
- Psychology in cybersecurity
- Psychology of climate change denial
- Psychology of previous investment
- Puritanical bias
- Pygmalion effect
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