Jay Daverth's Quotes

in Cognitive Biases

Reminiscence bump – the effect that people tend to recall more personal events from adolescence and early adulthood than from other lifetime periods.

in Cognitive Biases

Rosy retrospection – the tendency to rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred.

in Cognitive Biases

Self-serving bias – perceiving oneself responsible for desirable outcomes but not responsible for undesirable ones.

in Cognitive Biases

Consistency bias – incorrectly remembering one's past attitudes and behavior as resembling present attitudes and behavior.

in Cognitive Biases

Cryptomnesia – a form of misattribution where a memory is mistaken for imagination.

in Cognitive Biases

Egocentric bias – recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g. remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as being bigger than it was.

in Cognitive Biases

Trait ascription bias – the tendency for people to view themselves as relatively variable in terms of personality, behavior and mood while viewing others as much more predictable.

in Cognitive Biases

Ultimate attribution error – similar to the fundamental attribution error, in this error a person is likely to make an internal attribution to an entire group instead of the individuals within the group.

in Cognitive Biases

Just-world phenomenon – the tendency for people to believe that the world is just and therefore people "get what they deserve."

in Cognitive Biases

Outgroup homogeneity bias – individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.