Affect Heuristic
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The affect heuristic is a mental shortcut where people make decisions and solve problems by relying heavily on their current emotional state.
Cognitive Biases
/ Affective bias
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Explore 5 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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The affect heuristic is a mental shortcut where people make decisions and solve problems by relying heavily on their current emotional state.
Cognitive Biases
/ Affective bias
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The representativeness heuristic is the tendency to judge the probability of an event by how much it resembles a typical case, often ignoring base rates and statistical logic.
Cognitive Biases / Judgment heuristics
/ Similarity heuristic
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The rhyme-as-reason effect (or Eaton-Rosen phenomenon) is a cognitive bias where a saying or aphorism is judged as more accurate or truthful when it is rewritten to rhyme.
Cognitive Biases
/ Eaton-Rosen phenomenon
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The fluency heuristic is a mental shortcut where the ease of processing information (fluency) is used as a proxy for its truth, value, or likelihood.
Cognitive Biases
/ Processing fluency
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The conjunction fallacy is the tendency to judge a specific, detailed scenario as more likely than a more general one that contains it, violating basic probability rules.
Cognitive Biases / Judgment under uncertainty
/ Linda Problem Bias