Tag

economics

Explore 6 cognitive biases related to this topic.

Temporal Discounting

2 min read

Temporal discounting (or hyperbolic discounting) is the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs.

Cognitive Biases

/ Hyperbolic discounting

Zero-Sum Bias

2 min read

Zero-sum bias is a cognitive bias towards thinking that a situation is a zero-sum game, where one person's gain would be another's loss.

Social Biases

/ Fixed pie bias

Ambiguity Aversion

10 min read

Ambiguity aversion is the tendency to prefer known risks over unknown or poorly defined risks, even when the expected outcomes are similar.

Cognitive Biases / Risk and uncertainty

/ Uncertainty aversion

Money Illusion

10 min read

Money illusion is the tendency to think in terms of nominal currency values rather than real purchasing power adjusted for inflation.

Cognitive Biases / Economic perception

/ Nominal thinking

Hyperbolic Discounting

6 min read

Preferring smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later ones.

Cognitive Biases

/ Time-Inconsistent Preferences

Anchoring Bias

10 min read

The tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered (the 'anchor') when making decisions, even when that information is irrelevant or arbitrary.

Cognitive Biases

/ Anchoring Effect