Proportionality Bias
The tendency to believe that large or significant events must have large or significant causes.
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“cognitive psychology”
Focusing Effect
A cognitive bias where people place too much importance on one aspect of an event, causing errors in judgment.
Empathy Gap
A cognitive bias where people underestimate the influence of emotional states on their own and others' behavior.
Worse-Than-Average Effect
A cognitive bias where individuals underestimate their own abilities and performance relative to others, believing they are worse than average.
Bounded Rationality
A concept that humans make decisions within the limits of their knowledge, cognitive capacity, and available time, leading to satisficing rather than optimal solutions.
Adaptive Control of Thought
A cognitive architecture model that explains how humans can learn and adapt to new tasks.
Salience Bias
A cognitive bias where people focus on the most noticeable or prominent information while ignoring less conspicuous details.
Reification
A key aspect of Gestalt psychology describing the mind's ability to fill in gaps to create a whole object from incomplete elements.
Subadditivity Effect
A cognitive bias where the total probability assigned to a set of events is less than the sum of the probabilities assigned to each event individually.