Cognitive Biases

The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows.

• anchoring

• sunk cost

• the barnum effect

• curse of knowledge

You irrationally cling to things that have already cost you something.

• anchoring

• sunk cost

• groupthink

• belief bias

Your judgments are influenced by what springs most easily to mind.

• anchoring

• sunk cost

• availability heuristic

• negativity bias

Once you understand something you presume it to be obvious to everyone.

• sunk cost

• confirmation bias

• anchoring

• the curse of knowledge

You favor things that confirm your existing beliefs.

• confirmation bias

• fundamental attribution error

• availability heuristic

• the barnum effect

The more you know, the less confident you're likely to be.

• the dunning-kruger effect

• confirmation bias

• negativity bias

• pessimism bias

If a conclusion supports your existing beliefs, you'll rationalize anything that supports it.

• belief bias

• in-group bias

• declinism

• the placebo efffect

You believe your failures are due to external factors, yet you're responsible for your successes.

• self-serving bias

• reactance

• the bystander effect

• the backfire effect

When some aspect of your core beliefs is challenged, it can cause you to believe even more strongly.

• the backfire effect

• optimism bias

• sunk cost fallacy

• pessimism bias

You see personal specifics in vague statements by filling in the gaps.

• the barnum effect

• the backfire effect

• the just world hypothesis

• self-serving bias