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Explore 9 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Correspondence bias is the tendency to infer stable personality traits from others' behavior while underestimating situational influences.
Social Biases / Attribution and impression formation
/ Fundamental Attribution Error
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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 introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable.
Social Biases
/ Bias blind spot (related)
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Illusory superiority is a cognitive bias whereby a person overestimates their own qualities and abilities, in relation to the same qualities and abilities of other people.
Social Biases
/ Above-average effect
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Judging decisions by results, not quality.
Cognitive Biases
/ Resulting
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The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overestimate the role of personality and underestimate the role of situations when explaining other people’s behavior.
Social Biases / Attribution and explanation
/ FAE
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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
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The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events with greater 'availability' in memory, which can be influenced by how recent, unusual, or emotionally charged the memories are.
Cognitive Biases
/ Availability Bias
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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