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Familiarity heuristic

Tendency to favor familiar things over new things

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Positivity offset

Cognitive bias

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Illusion of control

False belief in an ability to control events

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Bias blind spot

Cognitive bias

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Less-is-better effect

Cognitive bias

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Physical attractiveness stereotype

Stereotype

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Well travelled road effect

Cognitive bias

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Naïve cynicism

Cognitive bias

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Information bias (psychology)

Cognitive bias

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Framing effect (psychology)

Bias in which choices are influenced by the options' connotations

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Extension neglect

Error in thinking due to under-valuing the size of a set

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IKEA effect

Cognitive bias

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Clustering illusion

Erroneously seeing patterns in randomness

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Ambiguity effect

Cognitive bias

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Selective omission

Memory bias (deliberate forgetting)

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Restraint bias

Cognitive bias

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Choice-supportive bias

Tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were

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Von Restorff effect

Theory that stimulus which differs the most from a group is remembered the most

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Defensive attribution hypothesis

Cognitive bias

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Attentional bias

Tendency for people's perception to be affected by their recurring thoughts at the time

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Naïve cynicism

Cognitive bias

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Information bias (psychology)

Cognitive bias

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Framing effect (psychology)

Bias in which choices are influenced by the options' connotations

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Extension neglect

Error in thinking due to under-valuing the size of a set

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Illusion of validity

Cognitive bias

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Duration neglect

Cognitive bias

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Naïve realism (psychology)

Human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively

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Dunning–Kruger effect

Cognitive bias about one's own skill

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Illusory correlation

Inaccurately perceiving a relationship between two unrelated events

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Loss aversion

Aspect of decision and prospect theories

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Illusion of validity

Cognitive bias

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Illusion of validity

Cognitive bias

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Normalcy bias

Disbelief or minimization in response to threat warnings

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Curse of knowledge

Cognitive bias of assuming others share your knowledge

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Loss aversion

Aspect of decision and prospect theories

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Impact bias

Psychological bias in predicting future emotion

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Curse of knowledge

Cognitive bias of assuming others share your knowledge

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Illusory superiority

Cognitive bias

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Selective perception

Type of cognitive bias

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False consensus effect

Attributional type of cognitive bias

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Self-propaganda
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Actor–observer asymmetry

Cognitive bias

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Familiarity heuristic

Tendency to favor familiar things over new things

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Zero-risk bias

Cognitive bias

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Von Restorff effect

Theory that stimulus which differs the most from a group is remembered the most

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Defensive attribution hypothesis

Cognitive bias

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Overconfidence effect

Personal cognitive bias

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Implicit stereotype

Unreflected, mistaken attributions to and descriptions of social groups

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Scope neglect

Cognitive bias

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Familiarity heuristic

Tendency to favor familiar things over new things

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