User:Mati Roy/Books/Cognitive Biases: Need to Act Fast

Part 3

 * In order to act, we need to be confident in our ability to make an impact and to feel like what we do is important.
 * Overconfidence effect
 * Egocentric bias
 * Optimism bias
 * Social desirability bias
 * Third-person effect
 * Barnum effect
 * Illusion of control
 * False-consensus effect
 * Dunning–Kruger effect
 * Hard–easy effect
 * Illusory superiority
 * Lake Wobegon
 * Self-serving bias
 * Fundamental attribution error
 * Defensive attribution hypothesis
 * Trait ascription bias
 * Effort justification
 * Risk compensation


 * In order to stay focused, we favor the immediate, relatable thing in front of us over the delayed and distant.
 * Hyperbolic discounting
 * Appeal to novelty
 * Identifiable victim effect


 * In order to get anything done, we’re motivated to complete things that we’ve already invested time and energy in.
 * Sunk costs
 * Escalation of commitment
 * Loss aversion
 * IKEA effect
 * Generation effect
 * Zero-risk bias
 * Disposition effect
 * Pseudocertainty effect
 * Endowment effect
 * Confirmation bias


 * In order to avoid mistakes, we’re motivated to preserve our autonomy and status in a group, and to avoid irreversible decisions.
 * System justification
 * Reactance (psychology)
 * Reverse psychology
 * Decoy effect
 * Social comparison bias
 * Status quo bias


 * We favor options that appear simple or that have more complete information over more complex, ambiguous options.
 * Ambiguity effect
 * Information bias (psychology)
 * Belief bias
 * Rhyme-as-reason effect
 * Law of triviality
 * Conjunction fallacy
 * Occam's razor
 * Less-is-better effect