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Ambiguity Effect: The ambiguity effect describes how we tend to avoid options that we consider to be ambiguous or missing information.
Assembly Bonus Effect: Assembly bonus effect is a term that means producing an outcome as a group that is superior to the results that could have been achieved by every single individual effort from members of the same group. The gain in performance is caused by the way the members fit together.
Social Facilitation: People do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.
Barnum Effect: It’s a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personalities that are supposedly tailored specifically to them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. It could be a part of the reason why people accept paranormal beliefs such as astrology and fortune telling.
Birthday Number Effect: It’s the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers on the date of their birthday over other numbers. It’s said that the effect is most prominent for numbers over 12.
Name Letter Effect: Similar to the birthday number effect, it’s the tendency of people to prefer the letters in their name over other…
