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This bias causes you to favor information that confirms your existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
- Confirmation Bias
- Hindsight Bias
- Availability Heuristic
- Attribution Error
After learning the outcome of an event, this bias makes you believe you "knew it all along."
- Overconfidence Effect
- Hindsight Bias
- Self-Serving Bias
- Optimism Bias
When you judge the likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind, you're using this mental shortcut.
- Representativeness Heuristic
- Anchoring Bias
- Availability Heuristic
- Gambler's Fallacy
This bias leads people to attribute their successes to their own abilities but blame failures on external factors.
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Actor-Observer Bias
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Self-Serving Bias
When one positive trait (like attractiveness) causes us to assume other positive traits, we're experiencing this effect.
- Horn Effect
- Halo Effect
- Mere Exposure Effect
- Contrast Effect
This bias explains why we continue investing in a failing project because we've already put so much into it.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Loss Aversion
- Endowment Effect
- Status Quo Bias
People with low ability at a task tend to overestimate their competence, while experts underestimate theirs. This describes which effect?
- Imposter Syndrome
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Overconfidence Bias
- Illusory Superiority
This principle states that people feel the pain of losing something about twice as strongly as the pleasure of gaining the same thing.
- Endowment Effect
- Status Quo Bias
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Loss Aversion
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