Confirmation Bias
Seeking info that confirms beliefs
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Cognitive Biases
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Anchoring Effect
Overrelying on first info given
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Continuing due to past investment
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Unskilled people overestimate competence
Availability Heuristic
Judging by what comes to mind
Halo Effect
One good trait colors everything
Bandwagon Effect
Doing it because others do
Survivorship Bias
Ignoring the failures, seeing only winners
Negativity Bias
Negative events feel heavier
Hindsight Bias
"I knew it all along"
Framing Effect
Same info, different wording, different reaction
Self-Serving Bias
My win, your fault
Status Quo Bias
Preferring things stay the same
In-Group Bias
Favoring your own group
Optimism Bias
"Bad things won't happen to me"
Recency Bias
Recent events feel more important
Curse of Knowledge
Forgetting what it's like not to know
Illusory Correlation
Seeing patterns that aren't there