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judgment

Explore 6 cognitive biases related to this topic.

Fundamental Attribution Error

11 min read

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

Outcome Bias

5 min read

Judging decisions by results, not quality.

Cognitive Biases

/ Resulting

Illusory Superiority

2 min read

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

Introspection Illusion

2 min read

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)

Affect Heuristic

2 min read

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

Correspondence Bias

9 min read

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