Availability Heuristic
A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.
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Category Size Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge the likelihood of an event based on the size of its category rather than its actual probability.
Omission Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).
Illusion of Validity
A cognitive bias where individuals overestimate the accuracy of their judgments, especially when they have a lot of information.
Expectation Bias
A cognitive bias where individuals' expectations influence their perceptions and judgments.
Focusing Effect
A cognitive bias where people place too much importance on one aspect of an event, causing errors in judgment.
Ratio Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge the likelihood of an event based on its relative size rather than absolute probability.
Prospect Theory
A behavioral economic theory that describes how people choose between probabilistic alternatives that involve risk, where the probabilities of outcomes are known.
Conjunction Fallacy
A logical fallacy where people assume that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one.