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Cognitive Biases

20 Pathways • 186 Skills

Cognitive biases are like little mental shortcuts your brain takes, often leading you to make decisions based on gut feelings rather than facts. They're important to understand because they can trip you up, especially in complex professional environments where clear thinking is key. By getting to know these pesky biases, you can outsmart them, making better choices and avoiding common thinking traps that could throw a wrench in your work or personal life.

Availability Bias

"Memory's Sneaky Shortcut"

Bizarreness Effect

"Oddball Memories Stick."

Boundary Extension

"Memories Without Borders"

Childhood Amnesia

"Memories Hide-and-Seek"

Choice-Supportive Bias

"Decisions: Rosy Retrospection Guaranteed!"

Confirmation Bias

"Seeing is Believing?"

Conservatism or Regressive Bias

"Memory: Stubbornly Traditional"

Consistency Bias

"Past Me, Perfectly Predictable?"

Continued Influence Effect

"Unlearning: Harder Than Learning"

Context Effect

"Surroundings Shape Memories"

Cross-Race Effect

"Faces: Familiarity's Subtle Bias"

Egocentric Bias

"Me, Myself, and Memory"

Euphoric Recall

"Rose-Tinted Memories Unveiled"

Fading Affect Bias

"Memories Fade, Emotions Mellow."

Self-Generation Effect

"Crafted Memories Stick Better"

Gender Differences in Eyewitness Memory

"Recall: His vs. Hers"

Google Effect

"Outsourcing Memory to Google"

Hindsight Bias

"Yesterday's Nostradamus Effect"

Humor Effect

"Laughter: The Memory Glue"

Illusory Truth Effect

"Repetition Unveils False Certainties."

Lag Effect

"Memory's Slow Dance"

Leveling and Sharpening

"Memory's Sketchy Edits"

Levels-of-Processing Effect

"Memory: Depth Over Surface"

List-Length Effect

"Length Matters, Memory Falters."

Memory Inhibition

"Forgetting's Secret Handshake"

Misinformation Effect

"Memories: Handle with Care"

Modality Effect

"Sounds Like Memory"

Mood-Congruent Memory Bias

"Memories Wear Mood Lenses"

Negativity Bias

"Bad News Sticks."

Next-in-Line Effect

"Speak Up, Memory Slips!"

Part-List Cueing Effect

"Memory's Sneaky Editor"

Peak–End Rule

"Memories: Peaks and Pitfalls."

Persistence

"Memories: Uninvited Houseguests"

Picture Superiority Effect

"Images Stick, Words Slip."

Placement Bias

"Location, Not Lodged Right"

Positivity Effect

"Recalling with Rose-Tinted Glasses"

Primacy Effect

"First Impressions Stick."

Processing Difficulty Effect

"Effort Imprints Memory"

Recency Effect

"Last in, Loudest Voice."

Reminiscence Bump

"Memory's Nostalgic Peak"

Repetition Blindness

"Seeing Less, Repeating More."

Rosy Retrospection

"Memories: Rosier with Time"

Saying Is Believing Effect

"Words Shape Memories"

Self-Relevance Effect

"Memory's Ego Trip"

Serial Position Effect

"First Impressions Last... Sometimes."

Spacing Effect

"Spacing Out: Surprisingly Smart."

Spotlight Effect

"Feeling Watched? Think Again."

Stereotype Bias

"Stereotypes: Memory's Sneaky Shortcuts"

Suffix Effect

"Remember the End, Forget the Rest."

Tachypsychia

"Time Warp in Recall"

Telescoping Effect

"Time Shrinks Memories"

Testing Effect

"Quiz Yourself, Know More!"

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

"Almost Got It... Almost!"

Travis Syndrome

"Past's Rosy Glasses"

Verbatim effect

"Memories: Fuzzy Facts, Vivid Vibes"

von Restorff effect

"Stand Out, Get Remembered."

Zeigarnik Effect

"Unfinished Business Lingers"