Belief Perseverance
The tendency to cling to one's beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence.
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Ambiguity Effect
A cognitive bias where decision-making is affected by the lack of information or uncertainty.
Representativeness
Representativeness is a heuristic in decision-making where individuals judge the probability of an event based on how much it resembles a typical case.
Ratio Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge the likelihood of an event based on its relative size rather than absolute probability.
Introspection Illusion
A cognitive bias where people wrongly believe they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable.
Boundary Extension
A cognitive bias where people remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually were.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Serial Position Effect
A cognitive bias where people tend to remember the first and last items in a series better than those in the middle, impacting recall and memory.
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.