Hindsight Bias
A cognitive bias where people perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were.
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Similar To Me Bias
A cognitive bias where individuals favor others who are perceived to be similar to themselves, affecting judgments and decision-making.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Gambler’s Fallacy
A cognitive bias where individuals believe that past random events affect the probabilities of future random events.
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.
Omission Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).
Illusory Correlation
The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists.
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.
Primacy Effect
The tendency for the first items presented in a sequence to be remembered better than those in the middle.