Cognitive Biases

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Restraint bias - the tendency to overestimate one's ability to show restraint in the face of temptation.

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Selective perception – the tendency for expectations to affect perception.

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Semmelweis reflex – the tendency to reject new evidence that contradicts an established paradigm.

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Status quo bias – the tendency to like things to stay relatively the same (see also loss aversion, endowment effect, and system justification).

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Von Restorff effect – the tendency for an item that "stands out like a sore thumb" to be more likely to be remembered than other items.

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Wishful thinking – the formation of beliefs and the making of decisions according to what is pleasing to imagine instead of by appeal to evidence or rationality.

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Zero-risk bias – preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.

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Outcome bias – the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.

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Planning fallacy – the tendency to underestimate task-completion times.

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Post-purchase rationalization – the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.