Loss Aversion
A cognitive bias where the pain of losing is psychologically more powerful than the pleasure of gaining.
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Actor-Observer Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to attribute their own actions to situational factors while attributing others' actions to their character.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Horn Effect
A cognitive bias where one negative trait of a person or thing influences the perception of other traits.
Ben Franklin Effect
A psychological phenomenon where a person who has done a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person than if they had received a favor from them.
Hard-Easy Effect
A cognitive bias where people overestimate the probability of success for difficult tasks and underestimate it for easy tasks.
Belief Perseverance
The tendency to cling to one's beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence.
Dual Process Theory
A framework suggesting there are two systems of thinking: System 1 (fast, automatic) and System 2 (slow, deliberate), influencing decision-making and behavior.
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.