Worse-Than-Average Effect
A cognitive bias where individuals underestimate their own abilities and performance relative to others, believing they are worse than average.
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Base Rate Fallacy
A cognitive bias where people ignore general statistical information in favor of specific information.
Gambler’s Fallacy
A cognitive bias where individuals believe that past random events affect the probabilities of future random events.
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
The experience of noticing something for the first time and then frequently encountering it shortly after, also known as frequency illusion.
Omission Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).
Regressive Bias
A cognitive bias where individuals overestimate the likelihood of extreme events regressing to the mean.
Optimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to believe they are less likely to experience negative events and more likely to experience positive events than others.
Experimenter Bias
A bias that occurs when researchers' expectations influence the outcome of a study.
Category Size Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge the likelihood of an event based on the size of its category rather than its actual probability.