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Impostor Phenomenon
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Impostor phenomenon, or impostor syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon where individuals doubt their abilities and fear being exposed as frauds, despite evidence of their competence. Those experiencing it often attribute their achievements to luck or deception, downplay their skills, and dismiss positive feedback.

This phenomenon is not limited by demographics and can affect individuals in various professions and backgrounds. Impostor syndrome may lead to increased stress, anxiety, and a reluctance to pursue new opportunities. Overcoming it involves acknowledging one's accomplishments, internalizing positive feedback, and seeking support from mentors or mental health professionals.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: www.wikipedia.org


Belief Perseverance
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Belief perseverance refers to the tendency of people to cling to their existing beliefs even when presented with evidence that contradicts those beliefs. In other words, individuals may continue to maintain their initial beliefs despite encountering information that challenges or disconfirms those beliefs.

This phenomenon can be powerful and persistent because people often find it uncomfortable or threatening to change their long-held beliefs. Cognitive dissonance, a psychological theory developed by Leon Festinger, suggests that when individuals are faced with information that conflicts with their existing beliefs, they may experience discomfort. In an effort to alleviate this discomfort, they may be inclined to reject or dismiss the conflicting information, rather than adjusting their beliefs.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: www.wikipedia.org


Hindsight Bias
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Hindsight bias is the tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome.

For example, after a sports team wins a championship, fans and analysts may claim they knew the team would win all along, even if they didn't actually have that level of confidence before the event took place. Another example is a stock market investor who claims they knew a particular stock would rise in value after it has already gone up, even though they may not have made that investment before the rise occurred.

Hindsight bias can lead to overconfidence in one's ability to predict future events and a distorted view of past events.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: www.wikipedia.org


Curse of Knowledge
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The curse of knowledge bias occurs when individuals assume that others have the same level of understanding or knowledge as they do.

For instance, a teacher may assume that all of their students understand a concept that was just taught, when in reality some students are still struggling to grasp the idea. Another example is a technical expert who is unable to explain a complex concept in simple terms to a layman because they are too familiar with the subject and cannot imagine not knowing the information.

The curse of knowledge bias can lead to ineffective communication and poor decision-making as people overestimate others' understanding and may neglect to provide necessary clarification or details.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: wikipedia.org


Default Effect
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One example of the default effect cognitive bias is when individuals are more likely to choose the option that is set as the default in a decision-making scenario. For instance, when signing up for a new service, if opting-in to a certain feature is set as the default, people are more likely to go along with it and not change the setting, even if they might have preferred a different option if they had actively made a choice.

This highlights how people have a tendency to stick with the default option due to convenience, lack of effort, or simply not being fully aware of the implications of their choice.

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Source: www.wikipedia.org


Halo Effect
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The halo effect is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person influences how we feel and think about their character. Essentially, your overall impression of a person ("He is nice!") impacts your evaluations of that person's specific traits ("He is also smart!"). Perceptions of a single trait can carry over to how people perceive other aspects of that person.

One great example of the halo effect in action is our overall impression of celebrities. People perceive them as attractive, successful, and often likable, so people also tend to see them as intelligent, kind, and funny.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: verywellmind.com


Fundamental Attribution Error
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The fundamental attribution error (FAE) describes how, when making judgments about people’s behavior, we often overemphasize dispositional factors and downplay situational ones.5 In other words, we believe that people’s personality traits have more influence on their actions, compared to the other factors over which they don’t have control.

Let’s say you’re driving to work one day, and somebody cuts you off. Furious, you decide that the other driver is a selfish person, who doesn’t care about other people’s safety. In fact, the other driver rarely cuts people off, and normally they are very careful about safety—but right now they’re on the way to a hospital for a family emergency, so they’re acting differently than they usually would.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: thedecisionlab.com


Apophenia 
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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things

For example, gamblers may imagine that they see patterns in the numbers that appear in lotteries, card games, or roulette wheels, where no such patterns exist. A common example of this is the gambler's fallacy.

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Source: www.wikipedia.org


Choice-supportive biase
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Choice-supportive bias or post-purchase rationalization is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected and/or to demote the forgone options.

It is part of cognitive science, and is a distinct cognitive bias that occurs once a decision is made. For example, if a person chooses option A instead of option B, they are likely to ignore or downplay the faults of option A while amplifying or ascribing new negative faults to option B. Conversely, they are also likely to notice and amplify the advantages of option A and not notice or de-emphasize those of option B.

Real life example: IPhone owners tend to think that their devices better than Android owners have. And vice versa

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: wikipedia.org


Neglect of probability
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Very few of us have a problem getting into a car and going for a drive, but many of us experience great trepidation about stepping inside an airplane and flying at 35,000 feet.

Flying, quite obviously, is a wholly unnatural and seemingly hazardous activity. Yet virtually all of us know and acknowledge the fact that the probability of dying in an auto accident is significantly greater than getting killed in a plane crash — but our brains won't release us from this crystal clear logic (statistically, we have a 1 in 84 chance of dying in a vehicular accident, as compared to a 1 in 5,000 chance of dying in an plane crash [other sources indicate odds as high as 1 in 20,000]).

It's the same phenomenon that makes us worry about getting killed in an act of terrorism as opposed to something far more probable, like falling down the stairs or accidental poisoning.

This is what the social psychologist Cass Sunstein calls probability neglect — our inability to properly grasp a proper sense of peril and risk — which often leads us to overstate the risks of relatively harmless activities, while forcing us to overrate more dangerous ones.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: wikipedia.org


Empathy Gap
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The empathy gap is a cognitive bias that causes people to struggle to understand mental states that are different from their present state, or to struggle to consider how such states affect people’s judgment and decision-making. Essentially, the empathy gap means that when people are in a certain mental state (e.g. happy or angry), they struggle to understand the perspective or predict the actions of someone who is in a different mental state, whether that person is their future self or someone else.

For example, if a person is currently feeling calm, the empathy gap can cause them to struggle to predict how they will act when they’re angry. Similarly, if a person who is on a diet is currently full, the empathy gap can cause them to struggle to assess how well they will be able to handle the temptation to eat when they’re hungry.

Furthermore, when it comes to misjudging other people’s perspective, the empathy gap can cause someone who feels safe to struggle to imagine the perspective of someone who feels scared. Similarly, the empathy gap can cause someone who is looking for a fight to struggle to imagine the perspective of someone who is looking for a peaceful solution.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: effectiviology.com


Identifiable Victim Effect
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The identifiable victim effect describes the likelihood that we feel greater empathy, and an urge to help, in situations where tragedies are about a specific, identifiable individual, compared to situations where the victims are a larger, vaguer group of people.

Joseph Stalin, the former Premier of the Soviet Union, is often attributed to have introduced the idea of the identifiable victim effect when he made the statement:

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: thedecisionlab.com


Overconfidence phenomenon
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The phenomenon occurs when people's confidence in their abilities is greater than their accuracy. In other words, people are more confident in their judgment than they are correct

For example, at work, people assume themselves to be better than most others. Due to this overconfidence, the need to learn and improve seems unnecessary. Over a while, employees stagnate at what they do. This leads to lower annual raises, lack of promotions or even layoffs. In such scenarios, people blame their organization or their bosses but never themselves.


Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: verywellmind.com


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Topic: #Books


The Bizarreness Effect
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People show better memory for bizarre sentences relative to common sentences, a finding referred to as the bizarrness effect.

Interestingly, this effect is typically only obtained using a mixed-list design, in which participants study common and bizarre sentences in the same list.

Participants studied common sentences in one room under one set of instructions, and bizarre sentences in another room under another set of instructions. At test, participants recalled the common and bizarre sentences either together or separately.

The results showed that the bizarreness effect was only obtained when participants recalled the common and bizarre items together

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Source: link.springer.com


Representativeness Heuristic
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The representativeness heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype that already exists in our minds. This prototype is what we think is the most relevant or typical example of a particular event or object. The problem with this is that people often overestimate the similarity between the two things they are comparing.

When making decisions or judgments, we often use mental shortcuts or "rules of thumb" known as heuristics. For every decision, we don't always have the time or resources to compare all the information before we make a choice, so we use heuristics to help us reach decisions quickly and efficiently

Representativeness can affect the judgments we make when meeting new people. It may lead us to form inaccurate impressions of others, such as misjudging a new acquaintance or blind date

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: verywellmind.com


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Telescoping Effect
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The telescoping effect refers to inaccurate perceptions regarding time, where people see recent events as more remote than they are (backward telescoping), and remote events as more recent (forward telescoping). This mental error in memory can occur whenever we make temporal assumptions regarding past events.

It seems every year, on September 11, people remark how 9/11 seems like it wasn’t that long ago, and are surprised to hear the media highlight the number of years that have actually passed since the tragedy. Conversely, a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic and one might feel a lot more time has passed than it has. Instances of forward telescoping however, such as the case with 9/11, are more common than backward telescoping.1

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: thedecisionlab.com


Commitment
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The tendency to be consistent with what we have already done or said we will do in the past, particularly if this is public.
For example, researchers asked people if they would volunteer to help with the American Cancel Society. Of those who received a cold call, 4% agreed. A second group was called a few days prior and asked if they would hypothetically volunteer. When the actual request came later, 31% of them agreed.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: humanhow.com


The Google Effect
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Also known as “digital amnesia”, the aptly named Google Effect describes our tendency to forget information that can be easily accessed online.

First described in 2011 by Betsy Sparrow (Columbia University) and her colleagues, their paper described the results of several memory experiments involving technology.

In one experiment, participants typed trivia statements into a computer and were later asked to recall them. Half believed the statements were saved, and half believed the statements were erased. The results were significant: participants who assumed they could look up their statements did not make much effort to remember them.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: visualcapitalist.com

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