Individual level
Automation bias
"When making a decision, I have too much confidence in machines, and tend to neglect my own judgement."
Base rate neglect fallacy
“I misjudge the probability of an event by ignoring important background information.”
Confirmation bias
“When I research a topic, I favour information that supports my hypothesis and ignore information that contradicts it.”
Conjunction fallacy
“I judge it to be more probable that two events will occur together than that one of them will occur alone.”
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."
Illusory correlation
“I am convinced there is a link between two events I have witnessed, but they are not related.”
Impact bias
"When we think about how we will react to possible future events, we tend to overestimate both the intensity and duration of our emotions."
Repetition effect
"I judge repeated information as being more likely to be true than new information."
Win-Stay/Lose-Shift
“I am more likely to repeat actions when I succeed, I am more likely to change actions when I fail.”
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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