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What's your favorite cognitive bias?

Submitted by veridicus on May 1, 2007 - 12:37pm.
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Definitions

Submitted by veridicus on May 1, 2007 - 12:41pm.

Groupthink is related to the bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same.

Illusion of control - the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they clearly cannot.

Selective perception - the tendency for expectations to affect perception.

Halo effect - the tendency for a person's positive or negative traits to "spill over" from one area of their personality to another in others' perceptions of them.

CowboyNeal option bias - the tendency for a person to vote for the joke CowboyNeal poll option.

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