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All answers to “Name a cognitive bias”
83 accepted answers, from “Above-average effect” to “Zero-sum bias”. The level of each one is hidden: play to see how deep it sinks.
A
- Above-average effectalso Lake Wobegon effect, Illusory superiority
- Actor–observer biasalso Actor-observer bias
- Ambiguity effect
- Anchoring biasalso Anchoring
- Authority bias
- Availability heuristic
B
- Baader–Meinhof phenomenonalso Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, Frequency illusion
- Backfire effect
- Bandwagon effect
- Barnum effectalso Forer effect
- Base rate fallacyalso Base rate neglect
- Ben Franklin effect
- Bias blind spot
- Bystander effect
C
- Cheerleader effect
- Choice-supportive bias
- Clustering illusion
- Confirmation bias
- Conjunction fallacy
- Contrast effect
- Cryptomnesia
- Curse of knowledge
D
- Declinism
- Decoy effectalso Asymmetric dominance effect
- Dunning–Kruger effectalso Dunning-Kruger effect, Dunning-Kruger
E
- Endowment effect
F
- Fading affect bias
- Framing effect
- Fundamental attribution error
G
- Gambler's fallacy
- Google effect
H
- Halo effect
- Hawthorne effect
- Hindsight bias
- Hostile attribution bias
- Hot-hand fallacyalso Hot hand fallacy
- Hyperbolic discountingalso Present bias
I
- IKEA effect
- Illusory correlation
- In-group bias
- Insensitivity to sample size
J
- Just-world hypothesisalso Just-world fallacy
L
- Loss aversion
M
- Magical thinking
- Mere-exposure effectalso Mere exposure effect, Familiarity principle
- Misinformation effect
- Moral licensing
N
- Naïve realismalso Naive realism
- Negativity bias
- Next-in-line effect
- Normalcy bias
O
- Optimism bias
- Ostrich effect
- Outcome bias
- Overconfidence effectalso Overconfidence bias
P
- Peak–end rulealso Peak-end rule
- Pessimism bias
- Placebo effect
- Planning fallacy
- Pollyanna principle
- Primacy effect
- Pseudocertainty effect
- Pygmalion effect
R
- Reactance
- Recency bias
- Rosy retrospection
S
- Self-handicapping
- Self-reference effect
- Self-serving bias
- Semmelweis reflex
- Source confusion
- Spotlight effect
- Status quo bias
- Stereotyping
- Suggestibility
- Sunk cost fallacyalso Sunk cost
- Survivorship bias
T
- Telescoping effect
- Time-saving bias
V
- Von Restorff effectalso Isolation effect
Z
- Zeigarnik effect
- Zero-risk bias
- Zero-sum bias
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