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What's your favorite cognitive bias?What's your favorite cognitive bias?Submitted by veridicus on May 1, 2007 - 12:37pm.
Groupthink 21% (9 votes) Illusion of control 12% (5 votes) Selective perception 30% (13 votes) Halo effect 16% (7 votes) CowboyNeal option bias 21% (9 votes) Total votes: 43 |
Definitions
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.