Status Quo Bias
A cognitive bias that leads individuals to prefer things to remain the same rather than change, often resisting new options or changes.
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Denomination Effect
A cognitive bias where people are less likely to spend large denominations of money compared to an equivalent amount in smaller denominations.
Licensing Effect
A cognitive bias where people allow themselves to indulge after doing something positive, believing they have earned it.
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.
Impact Bias
The tendency to overestimate the duration or intensity of the emotional impact of future events.
Base Rate Fallacy
A cognitive bias where people ignore general statistical information in favor of specific information.
Bizarreness Effect
A cognitive bias where bizarre or unusual information is better remembered than common information.
Belief Perseverance
The tendency to cling to one's beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence.
Right Rail Blindness
A specific form of banner blindness where users ignore content placed in the right-hand rail of a web page.