Illusory Correlation
The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists.
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“behavior interpretation”
Hostile Attribution Bias
A cognitive bias where individuals interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign.
Actor-Observer Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to attribute their own actions to situational factors while attributing others' actions to their character.
Thick Data
Qualitative data that provides insights into the context and human aspects behind quantitative data.
Intentionality Bias
The tendency to attribute intentional actions to others' behaviors, often overestimating their intent.
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
Relativity
A principle often used in behavioral economics that suggests people evaluate options based on relative comparisons rather than absolute values.
Decision Tree
A tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, used in data mining and machine learning for both classification and regression tasks.
Regulatory Focus Theory
A theory that describes how individuals pursue goals using either a promotion focus (seeking gains) or a prevention focus (avoiding losses).