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Bias Blind Spot: The tendency to think that oneself is less affected by cognitive biases compared to others.
Gambler’s Fallacy: The tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are unchanged.
Omission Bias: The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse or less moral than equally harmful inactions.
Proportionality Bias: Our innate tendency to assume that big events have big causes, which may also explain our tendency to accept conspiracy theories.
Moral Credential Effect: When someone who does something good gives themselves permission to be less good in the future.
Self-Serving Bias: The tendency to claim more responsibility for successes than failures.
Framing Effect: The tendency to draw different conclusions from the same information depending on how that information is presented. This includes the contrast effect, which is the enhancement or reduction of a certain stimulus’s perception when compared with a recently observed contrasting object.
Actor-Observer Bias: The tendency for explanations of other individuals’ behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their situation, and for explanations of one’s own behaviors to…
