User:Mati Roy/Books/Cognitive Biases: Not Enough Meaning

Part 2

 * We find stories and patterns even in sparse data.
 * Confabulation
 * Clustering illusion
 * Insensitivity to sample size
 * Neglect of probability
 * Illusion of validity
 * Masked-man fallacy
 * Recency illusion
 * Gambler's fallacy
 * Hot-hand fallacy
 * Illusory correlation
 * Pareidolia
 * Anthropomorphism


 * We fill in characteristics from stereotypes, generalities, and prior histories whenever there are new specific instances or gaps in information.
 * Group attribution error
 * Ultimate attribution error
 * Stereotype
 * Essentialism
 * Functional fixedness
 * Moral credential effect
 * Just-world hypothesis
 * Argument from fallacy
 * Authority bias
 * Automation bias
 * Bandwagon effect
 * Placebo


 * We imagine things and people we’re familiar with or fond of as better than things and people we aren’t familiar with or fond of.
 * Halo effect
 * In-group favoritism
 * Out-group homogeneity
 * Cross-race effect
 * Cheerleader effect
 * Well travelled road effect
 * Not invented here
 * Reactive devaluation
 * Positivity effect


 * We simplify probabilities and numbers to make them easier to think about.
 * Mental accounting
 * Normalcy bias
 * Appeal to probability
 * Murphy's law
 * Subadditivity effect
 * Survivorship bias
 * Denomination effect
 * The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two


 * We think we know what others are thinking.
 * Curse of knowledge
 * Illusion of transparency
 * Spotlight effect
 * Illusion of external agency
 * Illusion of asymmetric insight
 * Extrinsic incentives bias


 * We project our current mindset and assumptions onto the past and future.
 * Hindsight bias
 * Outcome bias
 * Moral luck
 * Declinism
 * Telescoping effect
 * Rosy retrospection
 * Impact bias
 * Optimism bias
 * Planning fallacy
 * Time-saving bias
 * Pro-innovation bias
 * Affective forecasting
 * Restraint bias