Focusing Effect
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Overemphasizing one aspect while ignoring others.
Cognitive Biases
/ Focusing Illusion
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Explore 5 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Overemphasizing one aspect while ignoring others.
Cognitive Biases
/ Focusing Illusion
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Overestimating emotional impact of future events.
Cognitive Biases
/ Affective Forecasting Error
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Assuming our future preferences will match our current ones.
Cognitive Biases
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Optimism bias is the tendency to underestimate the likelihood of negative events and overestimate the likelihood of positive ones, especially for ourselves.
Cognitive Biases / Risk and expectation
/ Unrealistic Optimism
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Hindsight bias is the tendency to see past events as having been more predictable than they actually were, believing "I knew it all along" after the outcome is known.
Memory Biases / Outcome and memory distortion
/ "I-Knew-It-All-Along" Effect