Availability heuristic
Barnum effect
“I see myself described accurately in vague and generic descriptions of personality."
Dunning-Kruger effect
"The less I am qualified, the more I overestimate my competence. The more I am qualified, the more I underestimate my competence."
Effort justification bias
“I evaluate an outcome relative to the amount of effort it took to achieve it.”
Fundamental attribution error
“I explain the actions of a person through their personal characteristics while underestimating the influence of the situation.”
Illusion of knowledge
"I am under the impression that I know and understand more than what I really know and understand."
Illusion of transparency
“I believe my thoughts and feelings are more accessible to others than they actually are.”
Illusory correlation
“I am convinced there is a link between two events I have witnessed, but they are not related.”
Outgroup homogeneity bias
“I tend to underestimate the differences among members of a group when I am not part of it.”
Repetition effect
"I judge repeated information as being more likely to be true than new information."
Zeigarnik effect
"I remember interrupted or ongoing tasks and problems more easily than I remember ones that are completed or solved."
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